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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”

‘This will be the end of NHS dentistry’: Warning practitioners will quit or go private in bitter funding battle with Government – The Herald

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

Exams to remain as SNP warned over ‘woefully inadequate’ qualification overhaul timetable – The Herald

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”

Glasgow transport network ‘going backwards’ as Daytripper tickets axed before COP26 – Daily Record

Early-stage cancer diagnosis misses Sturgeon’s target by more than 20% – STV news

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.