Alan Adam objects to your publishing an article by Douglas Cusine about the legal mechanisms for handling complaints about MSPs and ministers because it criticises “individuals of only one political persuasion”. But the lid of your tin says “Legal News” and nothing is more commonplace than that the application of the law involves wrong-doing by individuals.

If Mr Adam and the rest of us do not like the fact that politicians of “only one political persuasion” attract comment by stating that they represent only those who voted for them, or by risking a charge of abusing public funds, or by getting public money for doing nothing, then surely both gentlemen are right: Professor Cusine is expressly right that legal remedies may be needed, and of course, Mr Adam is implicitly right that, meanwhile, we have a remedy at the ballot box.

Michael Upton