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IN a letter published by you on July 19 this year, I correctly predicted that the easing of restrictions would be disastrous in terms of further…

ADAM Tompkins lapses into lists of unionist rhetoric on the challenges of Scottish nationhood in support of his thesis that the current absence of active campaigning indicates the constitutional question is going into cold storage ("The signs of summer 2021 that it's all quiet on the second referendum front", The Herald, July 28). As a constitutional lawyer he must be aware of the many new European nations that have been created in the last 30 years. Estonia, Bulgaria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic are examples of small countries which have emerged and flourished following the collapse ...

CONGRATULATIONS to The Herald and the Ferret for the important and informative series on Who Runs Scotland (The Herald, July 12, 13 & 14). These issues on the Scottish economy and polity have been of concern to some academic and campaign groups but are seldom discussed and critically examined in the mainstream media, even less so in mainstream politics. Thank you for asking the serious questions about where power lies and who are making or influencing the decisions affecting many lives. And of course who are profiting. There has been much justifiable anger about the contrast between how N...

THE claim by Donald Macaskill from Scottish Care that older people with dementia were responsible for the Covid death rates in nursing homes ("Death rates higher in larger care homes", The Herald, May 27) represents a new low in the private care industry's attempts to deflect responsibility from the disaster that happened last year. Large care homes are typically built in wings or as separate "units". If these had been properly managed, outbreaks should have been no different to smaller homes. A 120-place care home, divided into four 30-bed units, should have had the same infection rates ...

It began with the 1986 Big Bang that did away with banking regulation, giving for-profit banks control over the UK financial system. This cartel of privately owned banks was gifted the privilege of owning the national currency and lending it back to the state as debt, leading to the now familiar cycle of boom and bust. They do this by issuing credit and because they are risk-averse, driven by shareholders’ interest and quick profits, they direct the vast majority of their lending towards low-risk financial assets and property speculation. These activities do not generate new wealth in the f...