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A nation with nothing to lose but its fear

Continuing our debate on the Union, Hugh Macdonald recalls the lessons learned at his father�s knee and asks: how well do arguments against independence stack up?

I am a nationalist by nature and nurture. I did not learn the benefits of self-determination at my mother's breast, more amid the fumes from my father's Glenmorangie and his friends' fags.