Taxing memory

It was very good to see again your picture of Aneurin Bevan talking to the NHS’S “first patient” in 1948 (Scotsman 200, 26 June), but this longterm reader thinks that Peter Duff, managing partner at Morrison’s Solicitors, has got it wrong about the initial funding. Unless my memory fails me, Bevan saw it as a matter of principle that we should all pay the costs of the new national health service from general taxation. Initially at least, National Insurance contributions, from those requiring to pay them, were a separate matter.

(REV) JACK KELLET Dyers Close, Innerleithen