A party? Yes, as soon as that shower are out

£25 STAR LETTER

I know we shouldn’t be surprised and there’s literally no answer to how low Boris Johnson can go but I’m still so furious at him having a Christmas staff party at Downing Street last year.

There were families all over Britain kept apart, old folk like my mum who stayed in their house because they were so worried about spreading Covid and that absolute bunch think it’s okay to have a party. I’ve been raging all week after hearing about it.

I like to think what goes around comes around but I’m getting tired of waiting.

G Bryce, Kilmarnock

Isle love it

I don’t understand anyone who doesn’t like Anne Lundon’s island accent. I think it’s lovely.

Karen Sandison, by email

A sharing sister

I read you article about the new trend for borrowing not buying clothes. I must have been a trendsetter because I’ve been doing it for years. It’s called having a big sister. I’ve still got some of her clothes that I can’t give back because I swore up and down I hadn’t taken them and I can’t wear in case she sees me!

Diane S, Aberdeen

Changed days

The article on Willie Ormond’s broken leg 70 years ago took me back. As a young Airdrie supporter I remember the incident, between the halfway line and the penalty box. Had it happened today the game would have been held up while Willie received immediate on-field treatment by a phalanx of qualified personnel.

Not quite what happened in those days. Willie was lifted up by the Hibernian trainer and an ambulance man. He put his arms round their shoulders and, literally, hopped from that point to the pavilion in the bottom-right corner. This was one of at least three times Willie suffered broken legs.

Jack Ramsay, by email

Celebrity snooze fest

I’ve been watching I’m A Celebrity but would probably have stopped by now if it wasn’t for Ant and Dec. Compared to the early series when there were real rows and the trials were still a surprise, it’s all a bit boring. Richard Madeley might have been good fun and Naughty Boy has his moments, but they are all getting on too well. Who want’s to watch that? Jackie Sullivan, Bothwell

An old injustice

The Memories page reporting the shooting of a Guardsman by the IRA makes me wonder why British soldiers are the victims of witchhunts while members of the IRA are allowed to walk free. That’s favouritism, not justice!

Davie Kerr, Lochaber

Bob’s a poet, I know it

Unlike Struan Stevenson, I do think that 2016 Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan is a poet. Indeed lines such as “to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea” from Mr Tambourine Man show Dylan to be a talented versifier who arouses jealousy among lesser poets.

Tim Mickleburgh, by email