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six days’ power out of 181, which leaves even the mathematically challenged to ask “what happened on the other 175 days?” They omit to tell us, during the same period, how many thousands of megawatts we had to import from RUK nuclear and fossil fuels to keep the lights on or how many millions in constraints we have paid to the operators to switch turbines off to protect the grid when demand was low.

Most crucially, they refuse to accept that the over deployment of weather-dependent energy is catastrophic for our energy security. They prefer to talk about climate change and low carbon when much of the pollution caused by wind development, both here and abroad, is not even factored into emissions-savings calculations, making claims of clean energy disingenuous to say the least.

WWF should stick to what they were set up to do. Energy is clearly not their field of expertise and their encouragement of the SNP government to allow the destruction of thousands more acres in Scotland for volatile, unreliable wind is not appreciated. LYNDSEY WARD

Darach Brae Beauly, Inverness-shire I thought the poem recounted by S Beck in your 25 July letter column was more Bud Neill than Mcgonagall. I recall onelobeydosserstripwherein Big Chief Toffee Teeth was asked why the tribe’s squaws did not get the Glasgow Fair Holidays.herepliedthat“only the Braves deserve the fair”. The Chief was of the Pawnee tribe and father of Pawnee Mary of Argyle. There were a number of similar characters inhabiting Calton Creek, but only one Lobey Dosser. RON OLIVER Elie House, Elie