“Being Scottish, I am easily insulted. Scotland was recently selected by a group of so-called European experts as ‘the worst small country to live in.’ It’s top of the charts for manic depression, alcoholism, lung cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer, heart disease and yellow, plaque-infected teeth. The end of the Scottish race seems guaranteed. We are the national equivalent of the dodo. And who is to blame for this?” (Salon)