Tv Historian Sparks Fury of a Nation with 'Feeble Little Scotland' Jibe
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A LEADING historian was under pressure to apologise yesterday after he described Scotland as a "feeble little nation".
David Starkey also hit out at Robert Burns, describing him as a "boring provincial poet", and dismissed bagpipes as "awful" on BBC's Question Time.See the full content of this document
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Tv Historian Sparks Fury of a Nation with 'Feeble Little Scotland' Jibe
The outburst provoked 72 complaints to the BBC and the show's website has been inundated with comments from angry viewers.
Professor Robert Crawford, of St Andrews University, a B...See the full content of this document
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