Scotland "the Belarus of the West"

Professor Niall Ferguson (historian) said Scotland's glory days were long over, leaving it a "small, sparsely-populated appendage of England".

Prof Ferguson also said the "ridiculous" Holyrood parliament building - which he described as a "risible and over-priced folly" - should be turned into a multiplex cinema or shopping mall, while Rangers and Celtic should "go where they belong": to "pretty near the bottom of the [English] Premiership".

The Scotsman

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