Perspective: Scots Are in Tune with the Brits

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ON MY walk into work every morning I pass a wall on which someone has scrawled in large white letters: "SCOTTISH NOT BRITISH". Everywhere I turn there seems to be someone telling me Britishness is dead.

Alex Salmond is on record as saying he does not feel British in the slightest. Not one bit of him belongs to Blighty. His former MSP colleague, Duncan Hamilton, recently wrote in an article: "The truth is that no one in Scotland has affection for the Union. Supporting the Union is now what voting for Mrs Thatcher used to be - something quite a few people did, but no one ever owned up to."

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Perspective: Scots Are in Tune with the Brits

Scotland's finest historian has added his weight to the argument that Britain is as dead as a Python parrot, nailed to its perch. Professor Tom Devine of Edinburgh University says the pillars that have supported the Union down the past three centuries...

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