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WATCHING the Westminster Government’s fiasco on social care has inspired me to write to you. We need an honest debate.

JILL Stephenson’s letter (“SNP has shown Indy would fail”, November 20) seems based on the proposition that devolution and independence are…

A group of migrants pictured in the Channel. Priti Patel's Nationality and Borders Bill could, if passed, see such boats forced out of UK waters I DIDN’T know whether to laugh or cry while reading the letter from Clark Cross (July 8). He claims that people make the hazardous journey here to seek asylum because the UK is “the land flowing with milk, honey, welfare benefits and housing”. In fact asylum seekers are kept in very basic accommodation, are denied the opportunity to work, and are given less than £40 per week to survive on. You can’t buy much milk and honey for a little ove...

RICHARD Allison (Letters, May 11) claims that unionist parties should have concentrated their attacks during the election on a "clear litany of failures, amongst them a once world-renowned education system in disarray". This assertion about the shortcomings of Scottish education has been regularly trotted out during the course of the campaign. Where is his evidence for this claim apart from the recent Pisa figures, which are very limited in what they have to say about performance in our Scottish schools? (It is worth pointing out that such international comparisons only started in 2020. In ...

NOFX have removed themselves from a headlining spot at Punk Rock Bowling 2021. The punk band chose to drop off the festival out of respect for the victims of the 2017 massacre in Las Vegas, which NOFX joked about onstage during a 2018 Vegas gig. NOFX have made a career out of non-PC and gallows humor, but at Punk Rock Bowling 2018, the general consensus was that they crossed the line. "We played a song about Muslims and we didn't get shot. Hooray,” Fat Mike said from the stage. Eric Melvin followed up Mike’s joke with, "I guess you only get shot in Vegas if you are in a country band,” b...