Letters to the press, 02/11/21: “the SNP’s poor record on converting words into action, and its failure to meet its own environmental, alternative energy and green jobs targets thus far, does not inspire much confidence”

Letters to the press, 29/10/21: The Chancellor has given Scotland around £15 billion extra money over the next three years. The SNP’s response to this windfall is predictably to complain

Letters to the press, 27/10/21: “Given the state of Glasgow under the SNP, the biggest contingents to COP26 will be a delegation of rats and the Wombles”

Letters to the press, 25/10/21: It came as no surprise to read that more is spent in Scotland on school pupils than in anywhere else in the UK. That it is £800 per pupil did come as a bit of a shock. What did also not come as a surprise was to learn that this increase in spending did not translate into better standards and performance.

Survey of 11,000 Scottish sites finds one in 10 has ‘unacceptable’ levels of litter – The Press and Journal

Scotland’s worst polluters named-and-shamed as leaked SEPA report damns 400 sites – The Herald

COP26 site Glasgow is dubbed the UK’s ‘flytipping capital’ – Daily Mail