Now’s the hour?

An Edinburgh tourist attraction is to launch a campaign to introduce a new national holiday to William Wallace.

Andrew de Moray was the the senior commander at the ‘Braveheart’ Battle of Stirling Bridge, given his higher status in the Norman pecking order of the day. Andrew’s father was Sir Andrew de Moray of Petty, a Scottish patriot who had been captured by the English and was incarcerated in the Tower of London at the time. Without taking anything away from William Wallace he was clearly lower in rank.

Ewan Macintyre How nonsensical can we Scots get? Wallace may have achieved a success at Stirling Bridge in 1297 but we need to remember that it was a minor success – he was easily and significantly defeated ten months later at Falkirk.

Corrigenda 2 I respect Wallace but I don’t need a Wallace Day; too much time has passed and those days are over, and in the past they need to remain. Nothing wrong with celebrating people, but we would need 365 to get through them all, so I suggest we overlook this and perhaps have a “tartan day”, that would be more responsible.

Med1a One We can just wait and have a Sturgeon Day once she leads us to independence.

Canyonero I suspect most Scots know very little about William Wallace and what they do know is based on the film Braveheart, which is full of historically inaccuracies (good film, though). So a public holiday? Why not one for Bannockburn, one for Burns birthday, Rob Roy, etc?

City Loon I was keen to see Braveheart until I realised the effect it was having on my fellow Scots. People I thought I knew had turned so crazy that some even wanted Mel Gibson to stand for parliament. It fairly ramped up levels of grievance and aggression.

bramley This is all very well but we have more important matters to attend to at present e.g. running our country properly.

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