by Fergus Downie (August 2015)
There has always been a bittersweet flavour to the adage that Scotland’s greatest export is its people, for if it permits scots to hold on a little longer to a Carnegie or Baird, and seek vicarious pride in their transatlantic achievements, it also implies what is left is distinctly unimpressive, a sobering fact to which its bloated political class provides eloquent testimony. more>>>
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One Response
When I got to “tampon politics,” I knew I was again in the company of kindred souls. I come form a long line of hyperbolic Irish catholic drunks where fantasy and ethnic pride were a direct function of spirits ingested. Good get, Fergus. Were it in my power, I would give Ireland back to Westminster too.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/hibernian_antisemitism.html