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Tally ho and two fingers to Holyrood
Jeremy Watson
Scotland on Sunday, 25th October 2005
TO SOME he is an eminent military historian and a distinguished former
editor of one of Britain's most blue-blooded newspapers, who was knighted
for his services to journalism. Others view Sir Max Hastings as the kind
of arrogant, toffee-nosed, self-regarding, would-be aristocrat who gives
gun-wielding, fly-casting Englishmen abroad in the Highlands a very
well-deserved bad name.
Those in Scotland who subscribe to the latter view are about to get
their prejudices reinforced. A new book by Hastings with the anodyne title
of Country Fair: Tales of the Countryside, Shooting and Fishing
contains an extraordinary attack on the Scottish Parliament, which he
accuses of "declaring war" on landowning interests and "indeed on field
sports" through its recently passed Land Reform Act ...
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