Useless lessons

seats in the House of Commons, the concerns of Scottish voters will again be represented from a relevant range of perspectives and not solely from the viewpoint of the SNP.

This is a much more accurate reflection of Scottish reality than the uniform spread of yellow which had occupied most of the constituency map since May 2015 and which had partly been the result of a passing upsurge of defiant nationalist sentiment after the 2014 referendum.

The general election has finally restored the truth that the SNP isn’t Scotland and that Scotland’s voice is composed of many pitches – not just the one of the SNP. How public-spirited of the EIS, despite all the current problems in schools such as staff vacancies and overburdened teachers, of which we hear so much, to demand the inclusion of “LGBT issues” in the crowded curriculum.

No doubt prospective