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Scottish nationalism is fuelled by resentment — UnHerd

Forget the Hogwarts Express. Three times a year, I get on a train at London Kings Cross and make a physics-defying journey towards Montrose in Angus, the Scottish town where I lived for the first 17 years of my life. 1,418 more words

Scottish nationalism is fuelled by resentment — UnHerd

Resentment is just about the only thing that really resonates in Celtic societies, something I pointed out in my piece Elizabeth Warren and the Resentful Scots-Irish. It led the Irish to independence in the 1920’s only to fall to dominance to the EU one hundred years later. It is stuff like this why I have given up on Celtic independence on either side of the Atlantic.

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