Sir,
Unlike your correspondents Yowann Byghan and Jim Waugh (The Oban Times, March 30), I always find letters from Donald J Morrison from Inverness (The Oban Times, March 23) to be very prescient and perspicacious, though one is left in no doubt as to his hostility to the creed of nationalism and its adherents.
I have to say I agree wholeheartedly with his view and I find that within the circles in which I move, both in the West Highlands and Edinburgh, these views are increasingly held by people whose political sympathies are across the left/ right spectrum. It seems that almost as a reaction to the aberration of nationalism, people of all political persuasions have decided the greater threat to our country is not posed by those to the left or the right but by the divisiveness and economic recklessness of nationalism. In the case of Mr Waugh, he doesn’t so much challenge the substance of Mr Morrison’s letter, but more the manner in which the content is expressed.