FITTINGLY, THE PASSING of Alex Salmond, the loquacious First Minister who led Scotland to the edge of independence, did not go unremarked. Yet amid the tributes, obituaries, and teeth-clenched critiques after his sudden death last Saturday, there is an under-explored element of the tale. The Scotland Salmond was born into in 1954 harboured a deep and ingrained suspicion of Catholics. That has lessened, if not disappeared, and he played his part in that.
Alex Salmond’s conversion of Scotland
Catholics and nationalism
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