Continuing our daily serialisation of HJ Paton’s fascinating 1968 book “The Claim Of Scotland”, courtesy of splendidly alert and dedicated reader Wilma Watts.
We’re enormously grateful to the alert reader who uncovered this little gem. “The Claim Of Scotland” is a book published in 1968 and written by one Herbert James Paton, a philosopher and a senior civil servant at the Admiralty and Foreign Office, who sadly died the following year.
If you click the image above, you’ll find a scanned PDF of the foreword, contents and first chapter, which at just 14 pages is a modest task of reading. Prepare yourself to marvel at how little times have changed since this pre-North Sea oil age, and to smile ruefully at a few of the sentences you’ll encounter.
Wings Over Scotland is a (mainly) Scottish political media digest and monitor, which also offers its own commentary. (More)
A summary of the meaningful content of Lesley Laird's responses in that interview: noise noise noise blah blah blah sound sound sound.
Graham Brady on @JPonpolitics
- letters not at 48
- hasn't told his wife the number
- the idea he would sit on letters to protect the PM is offensive
- some MPs have lied about sending in letters
- hasn't sent a letter to himself
- but he's not happy with May's deal
Now ambulance staff have been told not to call people “sir” or “madam” to avoid causing offence. How can it be right that a whole society must abandon everything it has understood historically, culturally & biologically to accommodate such a tiny minority? https://t.co/n2FGipCC8p
@WingsScotland Tbf I wish everyone else who was too thick to understand it hadn’t voted either.
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