Scottishness

A report from Leeds Univerdity in 2001 which I feature on my blog (www. davidbreaker.com) clearly identified the issue of the party lacking in "Scottishness" as a root cause of their decline from the heights of 1955, when they polled over half the vote.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

A geneticist at Ethnoancestry has developed a test for "Scottishness" — that is, "Pictishness."

Feeling a Mite Pictish? 2006

A marketing firm has come up with the most Scottish names possible by giving "Scottishness" points to forenames and surnames.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

'Scottishness' of his character, if I may coin a phrase, that when he has to plead before a committee of private gentlemen who have to be 'managed,' he should deliberately select a lower style of treatment for his subjects.

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

This in itself is no bad thing - and far less troubling than if the SNP government were to come up with a "Scottishness" agenda, insist that it be promoted in schools and suggest that (for example) democracy, fair play and social justice were peculiarly Scottish virtues.

openDemocracy 2009

Imagine Today presenter James Naughtie's surprise yesterday morning on learning that underneath the prominent Scottishness, he's really English.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

MacIver’s Scottishness, though he seems to have spent at least half his life in America.

Peter Pouncey - An interview with author 2010

Imagine Today presenter James Naughtie's surprise yesterday morning on learning that underneath the prominent Scottishness, he's really English.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

Thus one favourite aspect of Scottishness would be obliterated.

Archive 2008-02-03 2008

Thus one favourite aspect of Scottishness would be obliterated.

Counterfeit Bank Note Tales From Salmond 2008