Jailed protesters

I CAN’T believe the people protesting about saving our one and only planet are being arrested and locked away.

Meanwhile moped gangs and stab-happy neds are roaming the streets acting with full impunity from the law, Article 11 of the ECHR allows freedom of assembly and the right to protest.

Nowhere in the charter though is the right to be armed with a knife or moped with the aim of terrorising citizens.

I fear the same mentality will be applied when the people protest about Brexit when it doesn’t happen, Slowly but surely we are becoming a totalitarian police state.

Richard Low, Twechar

Independence march

Now we have heard everything. The police say they cannot cope with an independence march scheduled in Glasgow because the numbers attending may be too large.

A million people marched through London recently and the authorities seemed to have coped with that admirably.

Are we really suggesting that Scotland’s finest cannot cope with a march one tenth of that figure?

I feel that there are forces at work here determined to thwart and undermine a democratic right to express an opinion.

MA, Glasgow

Easter treats

I AGREE with Catriona Stewart’s column (Monday) regarding Easter.

I think there is too much money spent on it and it’s making youngsters spoilt and take

it for granted that they will receive lots of presents.

In my day I was over the moon if I was given one Easter egg... now it seems kids are given dozens.

KW, Glasgow