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Reasons for feeling Scottish

I was born in England, and this is where I've lived and worked. But that's not the whole story

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

Sometimes I say I’m Scottish, a claim often greeted with understandable derision. I was born in England, in Hertfordshire, went to school and university in England and, apart from some spells abroad as a journalist, have always lived and worked in England. I don’t even have much Scottish blood. My mother was English, from the West Country, and three of my four grandparents were English too.

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