Flower power

I can understand Jim Telfer (your report, 9 March) asking for a new positive national anthem to replace Flower of Scotland at sporting events, but I will be sad if it means that it will no longer be heard at Murrayfield and Rugby Union (RU) pitches across Europe. I was standing at Murrayfield on the day it was given its first public airing there, and had a lump in my throat – even though I'm not a Scot – because I realised that it signified our local world was changing, and

Perhaps it could be adopted and used in the way that Swing Low has come to symbolise the English RU supporter?

I was particularly drawn to Mr Telfer's reasoning that we cannot continue to use the relationship with England and the English to define Scotland and the Scottish; that is infantile. One definition of the difference between patriotism and nationalism is that a patriot loves their country, while a nationalist hates others, and we must not be drawn further into that trap by uber-nationalists.

DAVID FIDDIMORE

Calton Road

Edinburgh