Richard Parry

Review: Daring To Be Unionist

The cover of this small book, produced by the David Hume Institute, bears a tourist photograph of the oversized Union Flag that sometimes flies rather provocatively over Edinburgh Castle. After the introduction, by advocate Patrick Hodge, readers might expect to find a similarly confident account of why Scotland should renounce any suggestion of self-government in order to retain the fruits of the Union. Whatever sentiment might dictate, the hardheaded authors (and there are businessmen among them) are to remind us of the facts of modern life which make tampering with the constitution akin to amateur attempts at bomb disposal.