Delusion of Sturgeon
Sir: Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation speech was the longest and most delusional in living memory (‘After Sturgeon’, 18 February). There were reportedly more than 150 ‘me’, ‘my’ and ‘I’s spoken, as she congratulated herself at length, despite the government’s deplorable record since the SNP came to power. She referred to Scotland just 11 times. That tells the electorate where her government’s priorities have been all this time. Their focus was never us Scots; it was how to separate from the rest of the UK. If she wasn’t going to persuade the majority to vote ‘yes’ then, like her predecessor, she would be so irritating and divisive that she hoped Westminster would want to see the back of us and grant Scotland another referendum.
Thank goodness that ploy did not work. The support for the Union is stronger than ever thanks to her failures.
Lyndsey Ward
Beauly
Ofcom compliance
Sir: You’re entitled to your opinion, as they used to say, even in Britain. And Toby Young is entitled to his, regarding my recent departure from GB News (No sacred cows, 18 February). However, I was struck by his summation of my show: ‘Great television, but not always Ofcom-compliant television.’ How does he know this? Ofcom has been ‘investigating’ me for a year and has reached no such determination. They have launched three ‘investigations’ into the show. The first they abandoned. The second has been running since April and the third since October. Toby’s breezy assertion of my guilt is clearly prejudicial.
Given Toby’s confidence in my non-compliance, perhaps he’d like to give Ofcom a heads-up on which rules I’ve broken, because they seem to be having trouble getting the goods on me. This risks giving the impression that these ‘investigations’ are a racket: producers and presenters of daily TV shows are expected to ensure that they’re in ‘compliance’ in the mere hours before airtime, but the fellows who wrote the rules need ten months to figure out whether I broke them?
How odd to find Britain’s supposed free-speech champ cheering GB News’s decision to play Queen of Hearts – sentence first, verdict whenever.

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