Timingis everything

Sir, – I can’t help thinking the Review of Scottish Miners’ Strike Policing is timed to coincide with the SNP conference and an attempt to revive antiUK and Thatcher sentiment, woo Labour voters, put a beleaguered Police Scotland on the back foot and scrape together a few more reasons for independence.

The announcement emphasised that 10% of strikers were in Scotland but they incurred 30% of the arrests, the suggestion being Scottish miners were more victimised.

Successive Conservative and Labour UK and Scottish Governments have, for defendable reasons, refused an inquiry into criminal acts carried out during an illegal strike, and I assume that those arrested went through the tried and tested Scottish Court system.

So why now when most of the participants will be in the late 60s and some over 80? Allan Sutherland. WillowRow, Stonehaven.