Angus Robertson, pictured shortly after being appointed Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, leads the department responsible for planning the Scottish Government s independence strategy NEIL Mackay (“Johnson has corrupted English politics with the hate and bigotry that’s corrupted English football”, The Herald, July 15) refers to the “vast swathe” of the English population who are “trapped under an ideology it loathes”. That is exactly how I, a citizen of the UK, currently feel. Although I have as yet (although the time may be coming) no great enthusiasm for independence I have to acknowledge that at least the Scots have that option if only the SNP could get its act together. It needs to explain its strategy, in particular how it intends to deal with the inevitable challenges such a constitutional upheaval would bring. This the Yes movement failed to do in 2014 and lost the referendum as a result.
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Tributes paid to Scottish cultural icon Jock Duncan after death at the age of 95
Although born on a farm in New Deer in rural Aberdeenshire in 1925, Jock and his family moved from Caithness to Pitlochry in the late 1960s
Jock Duncan was one of Scotland s finest traditional singers (Image: Louis DeCarlo)
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