Costly colleges

Who the hell wants to live to 80 and be dribbling in a care home?

Lisa Tedstill Hell... just die happy!

Dan Haffner All right: Maybe it’s true – all excesses are bad. My point is that non-drinkers live longer, but finally die of boredom and ennui. So you choose your own brand and type of poison, mine – if poison it be – is two healthy drams of whiskey per evening.

gerald walter Doyle This page is Scotland in a nutshell – argue with the given knowledge and demonstrable truth because you don’t like the findings, ie, Indy.

Stuart L What if you just don’t care about the findings? What’s a few years at the end of life? May be better to check out early.

Chris Optional I think people are intelligent enough to realise that when they say it knocks two years off your life it’s not meant to be taken literally. It’s an average. Some people will still live to 100 even if they binge drink all their lives. But it’s a warning that you risk an early death if you drink too much.

jools in Edinburgh Teetotallers don’t live longer, it just seems longer.

Sidney Falco The SNP have total tunnel vision about “university” at the cost of the more practical, skills-based courses. That can only be to the detriment of the country in the long run.

Hazel Smith Mike Russell was the minister in charge when the colleges started to get hammered. He couldn’t disguise his contempt for part-time courses.

Peem Birrell The repair and maintenance of public buildings will always be of “Forth Bridge” proportions. The sevenyear refurbishment of the crumbling Palace of Westminster, which will not commence until 2023, was estimated to cost £3.5 billion but this figure has now doubled to £7 billion.

Samuelcoldstream Can someone ask Shirleyanne Somerville, [minister for further education, higher education and science] who trains our electricians now, who trains our bricklayers, who trains our plumbers, roofers and painters? Is it any wonder, if 140,000 technical college places have been lost, that our schools are falling down? They’re falling down because we don’t train bricklayers how to build them properly.

Hoditanddodit Independence transcends all, remember; we will be indebted to the Chinese and be their satellite state shortly.