Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday, 21 March 2013
O'er Land That Is Lost Now
I could swear that that
Palestinian honour guard for Obama was playing Flower of Scotland.
Their Officer Cadets now
pass out from Sandhurst, so you never know.
A definite expression of partiality on the day the referendum date was announced. But what land is lost now? Everywhere that was in Scotland in 1314 is in Scotland today while Berwick has come and gone several times in the intervening period. The Crown of Scotland did not annex the Northern Isles until 1471 having had no sort of claim to Shetland until 1468. Scotland has been bigger since Bannockburn and is bigger now but it has never smaller.
A definite expression of partiality on the day the referendum date was announced. But what land is lost now? Everywhere that was in Scotland in 1314 is in Scotland today while Berwick has come and gone several times in the intervening period. The Crown of Scotland did not annex the Northern Isles until 1471 having had no sort of claim to Shetland until 1468. Scotland has been bigger since Bannockburn and is bigger now but it has never smaller.
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