Sir, – The abject failure of our devolved Scottish Government to provide a prompt and coordinated response to help people in rural Grampian in the wake of Storm Arwen tells you everything you need to know about what life would be like in an independent Scotland. Soundbites and Saltire-waving are no substitute for practical action. This is one crisis for which the SNP cannot blame Westminster. Dr Ian A Gillanders, Queens Road, Aberdeen.
Nothing has convinced me that I’m living in a simulation more than Nicola Sturgeon blaming a concert by saccharine 90s pop band Steps for spreading a mutated form of a virus in Scotland. David Bone. Girvan, Ayrshire
One of the SNP’s aims was to create neighbourhoods where all essential services were within a 20-minute walk. They should try telling that to the people in Drumchapel, one of the biggest housing schemes in Glasgow which doesn’t have a bank anymore. William McCarron, Glasgow