Stop clapping NHS and start trying to save it

It says a lot when a 96-year-old patient with pneumonia is left on a trolley in an A&E for 40 hours and it is no longer front-page news.

Why on earth are we allowing the NHS to collapse, day by day? We were all out on the streets clapping for the NHS during lockdown. Well, we need to get back on the streets and start protesting.

We need our politicians in Scotland to do more than offer the same old excuses and tell us that it’s worse in England.

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf acts as if it’s nothing to do with him, that it’s awful and somebody should do something. Has no one told him yet? It’s him!

Stephen Smith, Falkirk

Peer review?

I don’t know if I would agree with Sir Malcolm Rifkind about much but he is absolutely right about the House of Lords ( The Sunday Post, last week). The more people like him that stand up to be counted, the more chance we might actually get rid of it.

How can any modern democracy give a lot power to people who no one has voted for? What are we thinking about? Maybe there are some good ones there, trying to do a proper job but they shouldn’t be there unless we have chosen them.

They don’t represent us so why are they being allowed to?

Brig Sandison, by email

So Bad, he’s good

I’ve been enjoying Bad Sisters on Channel 4. The bad guy is brilliant.

I remember him (actor Claes Bang) playing Dracula but this character is even less appealing than the Count. He’s a great turn.

S Meacher, Aberdeen

Aye, Robot

If one more website asks me to prove that I’m not a robot, I’m going to scream.

It totally stresses me out clicking on all those wee boxes containing chimneys, roundabouts, road signs or whatever. I always end up missing one and feel like I’ve failed a test. I don’t even know what the point is, a robot would do it better than I do.

Stephanie Millar, by email

Come on, Scotland

It’s great that Scotland’s footballers topped their group and are playing well but I can’t believe how happy everyone is. In the summer against Ukraine, when it really mattered, in a game that could have helped get us to the World Cup, we got gubbed.

We’ve won precisely nothing, we’ve qualified for precisely nothing and we’re talking like we’re world-beaters. Here we go again. David Thomson, Glasgow

Oor lovely touch

I read the letters praising the Broons and Oor Wullie cartoonists’ tribute to the Queen (The Sunday

Post, September 18) and just wanted to add my compliments too. It really was a lovely touch. Michael Carroll, by email

First class Post

Well done to all at The Sunday Post for winning Newspaper of the Year.

I’m a relatively recent convert but look forward to it every Sunday.

Congratulations.

Laura Mcdonald, Glasgow