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My Own Experience Of Growing Up As A Roman Catholic In Scotland Has Led Me To Fear Independence In Scotland. The Possibility Of Scotland Being A Kind Of Stormont Is A Real One. I Wrote A Book Recently About Neil Lennon's Year Of Living Dangerously And In The Course Of It I Had To Revisit Some Of My Own Experiences. Of Course, Most Scottish People Are Not Swivel-eyed, Loyalist Sectarians But There Are A Large Number Of Them. A Large Six-figure Number, And If I Were Living In Scotland As A Roman Catholic I Would Be Worried About That.

Only A Fool Has No Regrets And I'm Not A Fool.

Christianity Doesn't Come Into It. George Bush And Tony Blair Are Not Christians. Religious People Believe In The Prophets, Peace Be Upon Them. Bush Believes In The Profits And How To Get A Piece Of Them. So Don't Ever Confuse This With A War Of Civilizations.

Poor Me, Poor Me, Pour Me Another.

The Hard Left Is A Very Small Section Of The British Population And I Myself Am Not Hard Left. I Am A Traditional Labour Left-winger.