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Matthew Parris

I’ll never feel the same about the Scots

18 September 2014

1:00 PM

18 September 2014

1:00 PM

I doubt I’m alone among English readers of this magazine in having felt uncomfortable with our last issue. ‘Please stay with us’ was a plea I found faintly offensive to us English. Not only did it have a plaintive ring, but there seemed to be something grovelling, almost self-abasing, in the pitch.

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