Charles Moore Charles Moore

Mugabe envy in Scotland

Plus: A bishop deprived of his palace, and a former Tory MP buried in a Palestinian flag

Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard (Photo: Harry Benson/Express/Getty) 
issue 11 January 2014

Who owns Scotland? The people who most commonly ask this question believe that the land has been wrested from ordinary Scots by evil lairds and rich foreigners (by which they chiefly mean the English). Now the Scottish government is bringing out a report on how to correct this alleged injustice.

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