Scotland Matters Letters

Scotland has a new hero. A fearless woman who has principles and stands up for truth and honesty. A tough but fair woman who has the courage to say unequivocally that neither the emperor nor the empress is wearing clothes. She has challenged Police Scotland to arrest her for stating entirely inarguable facts. If the authorities did choose to do so, they would be making the biggest mistake they have ever made. Scotland would become an international pariah as well as a laughing stock, even banana republics would have a giggle. How could we ever have reached such an impasse? How could the majority of this country’s electorate have chosen such utter incompetents to run our affairs? Perhaps this will be the catalyst desperately needed for change. I am sure I speak for the majority of Scots when I say: Thank you, JK Rowling. Alexander McKay, Edinburgh.

One has to ask whether the term “United Kingdom” has become a misnomer. Devolution, intended to enable local areas to deal with local issues, is one thing – and probably acceptable to most of the electorate. However, we now have different laws on freedom of speech within and beyond one’s household in separate parts of the Kingdom. Is devolution out of control? Peter Williman, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.

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There has rightly been a clarion call against the Hate Crime Act being the most preposterous and downright dangerous piece of legislation ever enacted in Scotland since Devolution. It is the most blatant attack on free speech and one’s entitlement to express an opinion even in your own home without fear of, for example, the police arriving at your home to investigate. However, we would do well to remember that this Act was also supported by Scottish Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP poodle otherwise known as the Greens. Their relevant silence on the matter actually speaks volumes and they are at least as culpable as this utterly hapless SNP administration. Richard Allison, Edinburgh.

Difficult to tell which article in the Scotsman yesterday was the April Fool: the one about Glen Sannox bringing the Scots football team back from the Euros, or the one about the Hate Crime Act… Allan R Woods, Edinburgh.

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