An ever-increasing number of deflating failures doesn’t sit well with Nicola Sturgeon. Her dictatorial grip on the party is waning as the Westminster contingent experiences rising levels of dissatisfaction with her lack of progress on independence. Her hope of the Supreme Court bending to her desire to hold another referendum was dashed. Now it’s time to inflate a piece of highly flawed legislation into a constitutional crisis – or so she hopes. Never one to apply due diligence to the nuances of legislation, Miss Sturgeon is again set to ask the courts to rule on her political conniving. But her inflammatory language in trying to portray the Tories as ‘having it in for Scottish devolution’ sees her sailing close to the wind with regard to the SNP’s own hate legislation. Perhaps she’ll have her day in court for all the wrong reasons. Graham Wyllie, Greengairs, Lanarkshire.