Summary
SCOTLAND may be the best small country in the world, but it's also the most complex. Any sentence starting "Scottish people think ..." is invariably wrong. The average Scot, alas, does not exist. Even the word "Glaswegian" is fairly useless by itself: the city changes not just by area, but by street. The Scottish sections in bookstores show the many assorted attempts to comprehend our nation's history, let alone its character.
All of this makes life damnably tough for columnists paid to try to make sense of things. It's easy to analyse Tony Blair's education policy, or attack Jack McConnell's idiocy. But Scotland, as a country, is the toughest nut to crack.See the full content of this document
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I Leave the Mystery That Is Scotland Unsolved
Since escaping the Scottish Parliament to set up camp in Westminster four years ago, I have done my best at this game. And the first mystery facing any Scot newly arrived in London is why there are so many of their countrymen in this city. Many of them, it ...
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