Tory Party has nothing at all to say on key issues CAMERA CLUB
IWAS struck by a leaflet from the Scottish Conservatives that popped through the door. This noted that they were the only party able to stop the SNP gaining a majority of seats at the forthcoming Scottish Parliament elections, thereby preventing the holding of another independence referendum.
Clearly, for those independence supporters, there is welcome acknowledgement here that should the SNP win a majority, there will be another referendum, which is pleasing to note.
It is, however, disappointing that beyond this the Tories have nothing to say on key issues such as education, health and employment.
Given this, it would be more than a little hypocritical that should the SNP gain a majority, the Scottish Tories, given these statements, then turn round and oppose the holding of such a vote. Alex Orr
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WHAT evidence is the Scottish Government using to justify keeping churches closed for another month at least?
How can it be fair that on one side of the Border in Scotland I would be committing a crime by praying in church but a few minutes down the road on the other side of the Border I can do the same thing perfectly legally?
If banning church services is having a significant impact in Scotland then why does Scotland have the exact same R number as England and Wales, 0.7-0.9, where churches are both open?
Logic dictates this is not having a significant effect on the virus but yet we are told the Scottish Government might allow us to meet from Easter Monday?
England, with more churches and church-goers, has gotten the R rate below one without any problems arising from churches being open – so why, in the words of the old protest song, are we waiting?
Chris
Glasgow
I NOTE a senior Glasgow City Council official taking voluntary
severance and she is credited with handling the equal pay dispute.
Does the chief executive and the leader of the council not realise it was council management that caused the equal pay dispute in the first place?
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I NOW realise what it is like to live in a dictatorship and be brainwashed.
You stop thinking for yourself but try as I might I cannot get my head around the vaccination programme.
Yes, vaccinate the old and vulnerable, but what about those who are having to work and keep the wheels of society turning – teachers, refuse men, supermarket workers etc?
They have to wait until they fit into the correct age bracket but through no fault of their own, they are the ones most likely to get Covid and then pass it on.
Not the old and vulnerable who are virtual prisoners in their own homes or care homes.
Surely to stop the Covid virus we must stop it at source.
Logic dictates it’s not having a significant effect on the virus
THIS WEEK’S THEME: #SIT
Saving mankind is every bit as important as saving the NHS. HD
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ONCE we’ve all been offered vaccinations, those who support pub passports need to explain why those who can’t or won’t get vaccinated are harming those who can and do.
Pub passports are the thin end of a very Big Brothery wedge. Barry Tighe
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I USED to live not far from the area in Los Angeles where Tiger Woods had yet another of his dramatic car crashes on Tuesday morning.
If ever there is an area where courtesy cars for visiting professional sportsmen should come with a chauffeur it’s the Palos Verdes peninsula.
There are two routes from the Terranea Resort to the Rolling Hills Country Club: a fabulously scenic southern route up Palos Verdes Drive and a northern route on Hawthorne Drive, a boring suburban road with a 45 mph limit.
The problem is, one can be tempted to floor it on the latter’s long straights which suddenly give way to harshly tightening bends.
LOOK closely around Glasgow and you may spot one of the city’s few remaining Art Deco treasures. On Sauchiehall Street, the towering Beresford Hotel has been a landmark since it opened in 1938, originally built to provide accommodation for people attending the 1938 Empire Exhibition.
Noted for its Art Deco/ Streamline Moderne architecture it was designed by owner and managing director William Beresford Inglis.
During the Second World War, the glamorous, 10-storey building was a favourite of American GIs, spending time in and around the city.
Our picture was taken in 1952. The Beresford remained a hotel until 1964, when it was bought by the Royal College of Science and Technology (the soonto-be University of Strathclyde) and turned into student accommodation.
Renamed the Baird Hall of Residence, it was opened by Margaret Baird, the widow of television inventor John Logie Baird. Now it is home to flats. Like the Beresford, the headquarters of the British Luma Co-operative Lamp company on Shieldhall Road, was built in 1938 to coincide with Glasgow’s hosting of the British Empire Exhibition. It is a stunning city landmark, thanks to its 84ft glass tower. Also like the Beresford, it is now home to flats, having once been a caravan company showroom. Music fans will know the New Bedford Cinema as the O2 Academy, but it’s one of the few Art Deco buildings left still ostensibly fulfilling its original purpose
– to entertain the people of Glasgow. Originally opened in 1921 and designed by Lennox and McMath, it was a picture house and then a bingo hall until it closed in the 1990s. Drinkers out Shettleston Road way will no doubt be familiar with the Gartocher Bar. This is how it looked in 1937 when architect William Ross created it for William Ralston on the site of the old Barrowman’s pub. The beautiful Art Deco stained glass windows were much-admired.