http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/2942662/Gers-want-Jim-he-wants-Scotland.html

On reading this piece from Roger Hannah in the Scottish Sun I can’t help

but think that the former may depend on the latter.

Perhaps the sub editor would have been closer to the mark had the headline read:

“ Jim wants Scotland now Gers want Jim.”

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Empires do not become empires by being nice or honourable or generous.

Another feature of successful empires is a reluctance to give up the territories that they have previously “acquired”.

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