Charting how anti-Scottish hostility is on the rise in England
By Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim anti-scottish Sign marking the border between England and Scotland on the East Coast Main Line, circa 1993, United Kingdom. (Photo by Rail Photo/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images). ‘Why don’t you go back home?” said the woman to John (not his real name) when she heard his Scottish accent. As he later told us, it felt somewhat ironic as he was at Liverpool Pier Head for the Cunard bicentenary celebrations – a shipping company founded by Scots. But these incidents were becoming in...
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