FUNNY how everything is the people’s fault when we have an increase (“Covid: 967 positive cases amid warnings NHS will pay ‘cost’ of relaxed Christmas rules”, December 29).

The people never stood in front of the camera telling you it was ok to mix. Masks no use, students from all over the world come here for study, schoolkids can’t spread it. These are all things we have been told in the past that were wrong. Not a word about all this – now we are blamed for having Christmas and last month they blamed the varied strains on holiday makers.

Always the public’s mistakes, never a mention about the duff information.

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I WOULD certainly agree with Clark Cross (December 28) that resources should be used to build low-rent social housing and to tackle fuel poverty. Homelessness is a scourge and a stain on our society and more urgent action is desperately needed.

However, I certainly cannot agree that the Hate Crimes Bill is a “vanity” project.

Racism, sectarianism and homophobic and gender discrimination are an affront to any society claiming to be civilised and need to be tackled robustly.

MA

Glasgow

FOR the past 48 years the people of the UK enjoyed the social benefits of being members of the EU, until Boris Johnson came on the scene.

With misleading and false claims about the EU, this right-wing Tory buffoon sowed the seeds of doubt about continuing our membership of the EU. Unfortunately, Boris’s many false claims about the EU gained credibility, which forced a referendum in June 2016, with a majority vote for Brexit.

The Brexit vote is a vote against democracy, which will only encourage this right-wing Tory government to disregard the rights of the people which they gained as members of the EU.

However, with a compliant Labour opposition, led by Keir Starmer (pictured), the Tories, in my opinion, will remain in power for the foreseeable future.

RD

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SUPERB (“Cashing in the empties and the ‘Corpy’ buses – Glasgow in the 70s”, December 29). I’ve been doing the same since 2010 and it’s amazing how much changes. I photographed the seven years of red road flats demolition alongside many street scenes throughout the city. This pandemic has kind of curtailed me though.

John Colin

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I RECALL as a young chap leaving a packed Celtic End at Hampden and deciding that it might be safer to slide down the grass on my backside than go anywhere near the stairs (“Ibrox Disaster: ‘Nothing prepared me for what I saw that day’ – first aider’s memories of tragedy”, December 29).

A terrible event that could have been replicated at any number of grounds. Very sad.

Hank Rollo

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ALL this intrigue and speculation could be for naught by the way things are going (“Steven Gerrard will want to kill off Celtic with dominant Ibrox win and ‘rub their nose in it’, says Commons”, December 29.

The Man City v Everton game was cancelled due to some City players coming down with Covid.

If this trend continues to affect Scottish teams Lord knows where it could end.

James Reilly

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I AM really looking forward to the big nationally televised match of the weekend – Dundee v Hearts.

But the Old Firm match will be quite interesting too.

There will be a lot of goals in both matches.

Hearts are scoring for fun, as Celtic discovered. Can Celtic stop Rangers scoring?

The Glasgow tussle reminds me of a match between Newcastle and Manchester United in the 1990s. Newcastle were as far clear of United as Rangers are ahead of Celtic today. They pounded United for nearly an hour; then Cantona scored. After that, the Newcastle supporters sat with their heads in their hands. They knew that, despite the big lead, they had just seen the ultimate winners score.

If Edouard can do a Cantona, Celtic will get their “10”.

Otherwise, they won’t.

It really is as simple as that.

Ron Delnovo

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