I WAS reading the various reports of Scotland’s hugely disappointing performance against Ireland in Paris on Saturday night. We’d been told that…
I WAS reading the various reports of Scotland’s hugely disappointing performance against Ireland in Paris on Saturday night. We’d been told that four years of planning had gone into producing a side – hungrier, meaner, more tactically savvy – that could produce when it really mattered.
The SRU have a hashtag: #asone And yet, in 2014, a group of ex-Scotland players came out for Better Together, which just proves that you should never meet your heroes. And I’ll guarantee these are the same folk who will always say politics and sport shouldn’t mix. To be honest I’ve watched every Scotland game ever since through that duplicitous prism. It was like when Alex McLeish became our football manager and came out for No.
It appears that the BBC has not learnt from the public outcry, as they interviewed the same organisation for BBC Scotland News to get their perspective on the buffer zones bill now being progressed through the Scottish Parliament.
The interference from the American religious right in our democracy should be a cause for concern, and it would be preferable if the BBC, instead of promoting these organisations, would challenge them and hold them accountable.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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