Abroad opinion

Actor Brian Cox (Scotsman, 18 April) espouses the view that the English are not “internationalist”, but the Scots are. Apparently, this is because of Brexit.

Oddly, however, Mr Cox supported the independence campaign to tear Scotland out of the UK in 2014, which would have meant the break-up of a union of the nations of the UK. This, in itself, as a pooling of sovereignty and drawing together of historic enemies in one nation state, is surely, the ultimate example of internationalism.

However, as an example of “Do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do”, Mr Cox, a resident of the USA, cannot see the supreme irony of his comments. He is commenting about Scotland from outside the UK, rather like the Nobel Prize-winning British scientists who bemoaned the decision by the population of the whole of the UK (not just England)to leave the European Union which we had never voted to join and yet who live and work in the USA.

Mr Cox is rather like other Scots who publicly favour Scottish independence, and being in the EU. So great is their love of Scotland and the EU, however, that they neither live in Scotland nor in their beloved EU either! He still wants independence too.

Perhaps now is time for a Scottish election as well, so that we can clear the air of any attempt to hold a second independence referendum. Does Nicola Sturgeon have the nerve?

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh