Issue with text to BBC was glaringly obvious

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Seven questions the BBC must answer on Kaye Adams ‘final solution’ text row

Whatever happens now, the publicity resulting from The National’s request for an apology has resulted in this slur on the First Minister reaching a far, far larger audience than the original broadcast.

The association in this case was so obvious that even a very inexperienced presenter would have been aware of its significance, let alone one with years of experience. Perhaps the solution is in holding the presenter responsible.

John Jamieson

BBC breaks silence on Holocaust text on Kaye Adams show

Katie Hopkins was sacked from LBC for using that term. Surely Kaye Adams should be sacked from the BBC for using the same term?

In its report re: Katie Hopkins, the BBC reported that the Metropolitan Police confirmed the matter was being “reviewed and assessed by specialist officers”.

Has the BBC reported Kaye Adams to the police? Maybe the National could ask it?

Daibhidh Beaton

Iain Livingstone defends probe into SNP finances almost a year on from arrests

The problem with this really is the length of time this investigation has gone on for and the uncertainty created by Ian Livingstone when he said the inquiry had moved beyond the original complaint. The people under investigation cannot defend themselves and we no longer know what allegations are being investigated. This creates a vacuum in which conspiracy theories and trial by innuendo have flourished.

Alan Thompson

When will we have the inquiry into the cost and conduct of operation Branchform? That would certainly prove interesting.

John Johnstone

‘A visionary leader’: David Lammy joins Labour MPs praising Margaret Thatcher

A Labour Party should be aiming at wealth creation for the workers. Thatcher enabled the accumulation of vast wealth for a greedy few. That was not wealth creation, it was the theft of the workers’ efforts by exploitative owners.

Where has our real Labour Party gone? Well in Scotland it’s now in the SNP and the Scottish Greens. As for England and Cymru it seems it no longer exists since the Starmer purge of anyone who agreed with Mr Corbyn. The Greens there, whilst they have an MP and control of a council, are still very small and all too many are clinging on to the hope that Labour will do the right thing.

This is a false hope – the Labour Party now is more like Thatcher’s Tory regime than the mighty reforming Labour Party of Attlee.

Labour under Starmer cannot be trusted.

Gordon Mulholland