Don’t let the SNP fool you into thinking this is a proxy election about Boris Johnson – Glasgow Times

Letters to the press, 14/04/22: First Minister shouldn’t throw stones; she’s in her own greenhouse. Political point scoring. It’s up to the SNP to find extra NHS cash. Scottish Greens will work with you…unless they disagree with you.

SNP ministers accused of ‘sitting on’ nearly £67m Covid funding – putting jobs and businesses at risk – The Sun

Letters to the press, 11/04/22: “Many are unaware the Scottish Government that has full autonomy over the NHS in Scotland but clap like performing seals when the First Minister deflects issues as the fault of Westminster. When they are driving around the traffic cones, barriers, temporary traffic lights and over the thousands of potholes on their way to the polling booth and perhaps think of how many drug deaths could have been avoided, food banks made extinct, littered streets cleaned and services supported with the millions squandered on malicious prosecutions, compensation pay-outs, pretendy foreign embassies and the ferry follies while reducing the shipbuilding pride of the Clyde to joke status”

Scots doctors have been found crying on shift as pressure on NHS leaving them ‘broken’ – The Sun

Nicola Sturgeon likened to Donald Trump after journalists ‘excluded’ from campaign launch – The Scotsman

Nearly 20,000 teaching days lost to mental health absences across Dundee in three years – Daily Record

Justice system is crumbling while minister in charge sits in monastic silence – Medium