Diary 
Neal Ascherson
For the last six months, a Scot reading the London papers, or watching London-made political TV shows, could only conclude that a sharp dislike of Scots and Scotland is spreading across South Britain. The reports suggest a bout of Scotophobia without parallel since the violently anti-Scottish mood of the English mob in Lord Bute’s day.
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Neal Ascherson has reported from Central and Eastern Europe since the 1960s. He is the author of Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland, The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea.
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