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Blood spilled on historic battlefield

They’ve been tearing verbal lumps out of each other in a ferocious feud which puts that between the Campbells and MacDonalds in the shade.

On one side there is Neil Oliver, the flamboyant presenter of the BBC’s History of Scotland series, and on the other there’s Tom Devine, the great man of Scottish history.