Ahead of Scotland's September vote on
independence, one Scot has written: Despite 400 years of patronage
and propaganda, Scotland isn’t the heathery extension of England.
It remains stubbornly and grimly, often amusingly, a different place.
Its humour, its character, its stories, its expectations, how it gets
married and celebrates, how it gets buried and sees in the New Year,
what it sings about and fights about, are all markedly, noticeably,
fiercely different. Indeed, this quiet river divides two of the most
distinctively separate nations in Europe.One
wonder whether anything similar could be said about the differences
between, say, Cataluña and Spain. Or Galicia and the rest of Spain.
Or even the Basque Country and Spain.
Talking of
Cataluña . . . Click here for details of the half-billion financial
skulduggery of the region/nation's most eminent politician. As was. A
master Spanish politician, in every way. And here's El
País, in English, on how the
nationalists are distancing themselves from him so as to save their
secession campaign.
The Spanish
public is more robust about blood and gore than elsewhere. Which is
why we have fotos today of a Moroccan jihadi sitting behind the heads of
the 5 people he's just decapitated. Though the faces are
pixellated, if not their bloody necks.
Finally . . . Author Innes Bowen tells us that
only 2 out of Britain's 1,700 mosques follow modernist
interpretations of Islam adapted to modern circumstances, against 56%
of mosques in the USA. My guess is this reflects the
Bangladesh/Pakistan origins of most British muslims.
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