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> And this particular headline is pretty silly. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom

I guess this headline is because The National (Scotland) is a Scottish national newspaper that might ride any horse if they see it as helping Scottish independence from the UK.

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Yeah - that angle bleeds through pretty heavily in the quotes. "This is what an independent Scotland should insist on"

Well, now I like the article more. :)

to provide some context on the newspaper that this article is on. The national is a newspaper specifically set up at the time of the Scottish Referendum to provide a more nationalist viewpoint to counter the perception that the mainstream UK media had a Unionist slant.

A minor quibble in that is was setup after the referendum to try to cater for the 45% of people who voted for Independence given that no daily paper in Scotland backed Independence.

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