David Starkey also hit out at Robert Burns, describing him as a 'boring provincial poet', and dismissed bagpipes as 'awful' on BBC's Question Time."
Sunday, April 26, 2009
But What Does he Think of the Crime Writers?
TV historian sparks fury of a nation with 'feeble little Scotland' jibe - Scotsman.com News: "A LEADING historian was under pressure to apologise yesterday after he described Scotland as a 'feeble little nation'.
David Starkey also hit out at Robert Burns, describing him as a 'boring provincial poet', and dismissed bagpipes as 'awful' on BBC's Question Time."
David Starkey also hit out at Robert Burns, describing him as a 'boring provincial poet', and dismissed bagpipes as 'awful' on BBC's Question Time."
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I agree with him about bagpipes.
Kilt envy. See it all the time. Very sad.
The late singer Tommy Makem used to explain that the it was the Irish who invented the bagpipes; the Irish then gave them to the Scots, who didn't get the joke.
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