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Readers' Letters: Time to step away from social media It feels like every other day brings a new story about online abuse being dished out to those on social media. I'm sure the comments being directed to prominent people from politics and sport is just the tip of the iceberg.
Readers' Letters: Is Sturgeon taking tips from Malawi leader? Scotsman Letters © President of Malawi Hastings Banda with Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Many readers of The Scotsman will be aware of the close ties between Scotland and Malawi, a relationship that goes back to the 1860s and David Livingstone. I lived in Malawi for a while in the 1980s during the period when His Excellency the Life President, Ngwazi Dr H Kamuzu Banda (as he was officially referred to) ruled that country with an iron fist. It has recently struck me how many similarities there are between how Banda an...