Power and PR behind this needless deal
£25 STAR LETTER
Who’s meant to be happy about the deal between the SNP and the Greens? I don’t vote for either of them but if I did I’d struggle to understand what the point is apart from giving the SNP a little more comfort on tight votes when the Greens were always going to support them anyway.
That and helping them look as if they’re taking green issues seriously before Cop26. Politics and PR, basically. And do the Greens not read history books? They should enjoy the attention while they can, it seldom ends well for the junior parties in coalitions. Exactly how much are they willing to swallow? M Fergusson, by email
Our big mistake
The letter about us putting our heads in the sand about climate change made me think that one of the first stages in our current situation was when the “experts” convinced us that removing trams from our big cities (and trolleybuses in cities including Glasgow) would be an improvement as diesel fumes from buses were harmless.
The resulting less frequent and more expensive services convinced many to buy a car earlier than they might have done and to use it for every journey and now we are suffering from the results. The next step needs to be to re-establish cheap, frequent electric street public transport so that not owning a car in cities can be a possibility. Phillip Bott, by email
Stylish at any age
I found the article on ageless fashion by Wendy Rigg in P.S. magazine truly inspirational.
In my late seventies, I embrace fashions that I wouldn’t have dared to wear in my teens and twenties.
In the very hot weather I channelled my Miss Butlins Knobbly Knees Champion 1958 in knee-length shorts. Complete strangers compliment me on my bright pink hair. Who said growing old is no fun?
Mary Cook, Gainsborough, Lincs
French? Pourquoi?
As a grandfather now in my early 60s I am disappointed to hear my grandchildren are taking French instead of Spanish at high school.
I was given French at primary and high school and have flown over France many times to Spain but never set foot there. My children, the youngest now in her 30s, all have been on school trips to Disneyland Paris but that’s the only time and now take their kids to Spain. So why, given that, do we still teach French before Spanish? Jon Star, by email
Denis the Great
Maybe it’s my age but the news that Denis Law had dementia made me terribly sad. I remember all those young men in their prime and they were just marvellous and Denis
Law was, for me at least, the best of them all.
He looked like he played for fun, like a wee boy, on and off the park there was a wee bit of mischief about him.
I just thought he was great and, like everyone else, can only wish him and his family the very best. They’ve got the support of a whole country.
Eileen Lennox, Dunfermline