Hoorah, at last I work out how to leave a comment....sigh. Have you read the Spring New statesman, cos as I am reading your brilliant Difficult Women book, I am particularly sensitive to Jason Cowley's Editor's Notes.....and wot he says about Nicola Sturgeon, whom I admire and would vote for! He says she is "too cocksure for his taste!!" Now, I am sure you would not think this a good thing...please will you take him to task for this? I shall, once I finish this email. I am nearly 80, and have had that sort of thing flung at me a myriad of times... I have always loved your writings, and was devastated when you moved to the Atlantic...but that is a great magazine too. Cheers, Betsy Barker
The Saltire Society is not a 'Gaelic society'. It is a general Scottish cultural society (saltiresociety.org.uk).
You make Gaelic speakers sound like idiots for not knowing if someone can actually speak Gaelic which is unfair. The Saltire society probably never tested him on it as they didn't speak Gaelic & didn't consider it relevant to his position.
Thank you - not sure how to correct a post, but I'll leave this comment up so people are aware. And I don't think *anyone* deceived by this kind of thing is an idiot - it plays on our natural, and wonderful, tendency to assume the best of people.
Hoorah, at last I work out how to leave a comment....sigh. Have you read the Spring New statesman, cos as I am reading your brilliant Difficult Women book, I am particularly sensitive to Jason Cowley's Editor's Notes.....and wot he says about Nicola Sturgeon, whom I admire and would vote for! He says she is "too cocksure for his taste!!" Now, I am sure you would not think this a good thing...please will you take him to task for this? I shall, once I finish this email. I am nearly 80, and have had that sort of thing flung at me a myriad of times... I have always loved your writings, and was devastated when you moved to the Atlantic...but that is a great magazine too. Cheers, Betsy Barker
Ha, ask Jason about growing up with older sisters and you might get an interesting response!
Oh, dear...I was a bossy older sister...
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The Saltire Society is not a 'Gaelic society'. It is a general Scottish cultural society (saltiresociety.org.uk).
You make Gaelic speakers sound like idiots for not knowing if someone can actually speak Gaelic which is unfair. The Saltire society probably never tested him on it as they didn't speak Gaelic & didn't consider it relevant to his position.
Thank you - not sure how to correct a post, but I'll leave this comment up so people are aware. And I don't think *anyone* deceived by this kind of thing is an idiot - it plays on our natural, and wonderful, tendency to assume the best of people.
Thank you.
I enjoyed the full Atlantic article on this too.