The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. (Tariq Ali)

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

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