This isn’t like the 1970s at all. It’s a lot worse

Everyone’s going on about how it’s like the 1970s again with the railway workers striking, rising prices etc. There’s a big difference though. In the 1970s, the bosses weren’t millionaires and the rich weren’t super-rich. It’s not about haves and have-nots any more but have-it-alls and have-nothings.

We’ve endured years of austerity while fat cats got fatter and fatter. It’s no wonder people are angry. Hayley Shanks, Dunfermline

Army issue accent?

Your Homecoming story reminded me of something I saw on TV once. The host of the show was in the Vietnam jungle and spoke of a man who had enlisted in the US Army to expedite his citizenship. While speaking he approached a soldier digging a foxhole. He was black but greeted viewers with the broadest Glaswegian accent saying, “hullorerr.” I trust he realized his ambitions, safely and soundly. Roland Osborne, by email

Stay strong

What an excellent article by Jen Stout on Russia/ukraine, well constructed and covering a broad spectrum of the war.

I find it incredible that people in Scotland would suggest that Putin should be given any Ukrainian territory due to the inconvenience of the cost of filling your car with petrol or having a slightly reduced choice of bread at the supermarket.

These issues are nothing compared to what the Ukrainian people are enduring. Putin is this century’s Hitler. Give him an inch and he will take a mile. Europe has ignored this for far too long.

I hope these type of reports will keep support for Ukraine strong in the democratic world.

Jim Robertson, by email

Brace yourself

The senior Broons shouldn’t be wearing braces. What’s wrong with galluses?

Thomas Proudfoot, Alresford, Hampshire

Deep thinking

I was intrigued by the answer given to the question: Where the deepest part of our country may be? Surely a point 125 miles out into the North Sea is not part of Scotland.

Would the deepest part not be the bottom of our deepest loch, which I believe is Loch Morar at a depth of 1017ft?

Peter Buchan, by email

For the birds?

The RSPB might not welcome additional wind turbines, but people are more important than birds. That’s especially true at the moment when many are struggling to pay gas and electricity bills, and we urgently need new environmentally-friendly sources of energy.

Tim Mickleburgh, Grimsby

Wuthering criticism

Good luck to Kate Bush but if jumping about in a red leotard and waving your arms about makes you a godlike genius then the bar’s a lot lower than it used to be. The guy off The Mighty Boosh impersonating her for charity was more entertaining than anything she has done.

S Poulton, Glasgow