I HOPE that you are proud to have Kevin McKenna among your ranks. His articles are always witty and erudite but this week ("Harvie's obsession with religion makes me cross", November 3) he spoke for so many people in Scotland when he expressed his contempt for the tolerance of current MSPs, especially John Swinney, of the witch hunt against Kate Forbes, describing it as "craven". What Ms Forbes is guilty of is expressing Christian views which the likes of Patrick Harvie, Stonewall, the Secular Society and more need to destroy to create the dystopian society they want to inflict on Scotland and the UK.
They never attack the values of other religions because they are afraid to. Anyone with a knowledge of 1984 will recognise these tactics but it takes a hero or heroine to stand up to this powerful cabal and I regard Kevin McKenna as one such hero. Lovina Roe, Perth.
Morally beyond the pale IN Neil Mackay’s Big Read (“Scotland will not be immune from the shock from a Trump victory”, November 3), Professor Peter Jackson says that “doing something rash to Britain’s nuclear deterrent would be unbelievably irresponsible”. He bends the meaning of that term entirely out of shape. What is legally irresponsible is the failure over five decades on the part of the five nuclear-armed states (UK included) to comply with their obligation under Article V1 of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty to take real steps towards disarmament.
What is off-the-scale irresponsible is to mainta.
