Harry Potter author provokes an internet storm after tweeting that she was tired of ‘blood and soil nationalists marching with’ civic campaigners
JK Rowling has provoked the anger of Scottish nationalists by saying she is “mighty tired” of their “insistence that their nationalism is nothing like the other, nasty kinds, in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary”.
Rowling, who lives in Scotland, was responding to a column in the National by Lesley Riddoch that said: “Setting the English up as our automatic enemy doesn’t help us walk away from the Union mindset or its relentless pecking order. And yet like a packet of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes scoffed with cold milk late at night – it’s almost irresistible.”
Nor does this kind of talk, from a self-proclaimed Scottish nationalist, quite square with the proud boast that 'our' nationalism is purer and better. pic.twitter.com/1APkzm3SlV
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