Letter: Identity crisis

Andrew H N Gray (Letters, 29 March) sees no impropriety in publicly denigrating the concept of Scottish national identity, while being secretly proud to be Scots.

By The Newsroom

Published 30th Mar 2011, 17:45 BST

Updated 30th Mar 2011, 21:20 BST

This dilemma has been shared by many creative Scottish writers, to some extent, even by Sir Walter Scott. This feeling has been described as "the Caledonian Antisyzygy".

(Dr) David Purves

Strathalmond Road

Edinburgh