Lunchtime lesson

and to try to blame the Transport Minister deceives only the uninformed. In fact it is so crass, and so obviously politically coordinated, it may well be having the opposite effect to its intention. The completely unbalanced and politically motivated attacks on Humza Yousaf are an indictment on those making them and speak of a Unionist cause that has now gone past the point of scraping barrels.

DAVE MCEWAN HILL My recent experience of the Borders Railway shows that the only trains which seem consistently to run timeously are the specials drawn by steam locomotives, some of which are more than 75 years old.

Perhaps the answer to Scotland’s current railway crisis is to build many more to similar – or even modernised – designs. If Scottish engineering companies are no longer up to this, then India still has the capability and I’m sure that a large locomotive order to the Indian sub-continent would do much to repair the damage of Theresa May’s recent visit. As a proud former pupil of Edinburgh’s Boroughmuir High I suggest that Tesco’s “discrimination” has nothing to do with state versus private but everything to do with the appalling behaviour of some Boroughmuir pupils at lunchtime. Perhaps your reporter should pop into Costa Coffee at Holy Corner to interview the staff there. They would be able to corroborate this.

The Watson’s pupils obviously behave when they are in the shop, otherwise they would be treated in the same way. So instead of complaining, the staff and parents of the Boroughmuir pupils should