IT really has come to something when the First Minister now feels she is so untouchable that she can bluntly and effusively insult the intelligence of journalists, opposition politicians and the electorate and has the gall to do it at a Covid briefing rather than in the Scottish Parliament ("Tories accuse Sturgeon of ‘Trump-style meltdown’ in vaccine targets storm", The Herald, July 28). It seems she does not do parliamentary scrutiny these days, perhaps due to the lack of intelligent and legitimate questions that might come before her. The sheer arrogance of her statement is mind-boggling. She deigns to advise us lesser mortals that “when I communicate, I kind of communicate at a level where I assume a certain level of intelligence on the part of people listening to me ... and I assume a certain ability to attach context and common sense to what I am saying”. Well pardon me, First Minister, for becoming so confused and for lacking the intelligence or common sense to understand the difference in the meaning of the words “given” and “offered”.