Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA Watching the above new BBC series on the Norman invasion of England in 1066 and seeing how close a thing it was, I wonder if, had it failed, might we all be better off, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish and every part of what was to become the British Empire with its regular massacres, genocides and famines? Reading again a blog post by Professor David Churchill, University of Leeds, my thoughts were reinforced. Churchill writes, in 1066: What If…? Let’s say the English … Continue reading I blame the Normans. We might have lived with the English