Farfromboring

Normally, letters from Scottish Independence apologists can be easily be ignored. However, the latest contribution from Fraser Grant (3 December) is so anti-english that a response is needed.

For centuries, generations of Scots have been proud to share the UK’S national anthem God Save the King without denigrating it as “boring” and it is only in recent years that some Scots, before sporting events, have preferred to sing another song which is either a dirge such as Flowers of Scotland or bloodthirsty like Scots Wha Hae, but it seems arrogant for Fraser Grant to demand that England must follow suit and find a replacement anthem.

To describe the current English football team as “boring” would seem to be just a case of sour grapes. If Scotland had managed to qualify for the last 16 of the World Cup, scoring nine goals, we would never have heard the end of it!

When one remembers the thousands of Scots who lined the streets to pay respect to the late Queen, it seems doubtful whether “the British monarchy is only supported by a minority in Scotland” as Mr Grant and his ilk would like us to believe. Even if the monarchy could benefit from some modernisation, it seems to me considerably less odious than a banana republic presided over by a retired politician such as Nicola Sturgeon. SALLY GORDON-WALKER

Edinburgh