Conan the Librarian cheers me up a lot. His parodies of The Scotsman are much less rabid than the real thing.
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I can best explain how bad the Scotsman now is, by saying that Andrew Neil was but a step in its decline. Those of us who thought it could only get better after Neil left, were proven astonishingly wrong. We should make more use of the phrase “self-hating Scots”.