AS we're now continually ordered, and taxed, in our life, more and more, as to what we can do, by both Scottish and UK Governments, regarding eating (salt, sugar, fats,), drinking (minimum pricing, no multi-buys) and gambling our own money, I would like to think that we are sensible enough to know our own minds.

We are now so controlled by the state that I'm beginning to think that George Orwell's 1984 needs to be re-published as 2018.

ERIC TRAVERS,

Gellatly Road,

Dunfermline.