Navel Gazing

A noted public intellectual has criticised the UK for a predisposition to navel gazing. He may be right. We do seem overly concerned with our own narrow concerns and negligent of many wider issues. Has he been to Scotland recently where navel gazing has been elevated from a fault to a principle of life? Our government is dedicated to nationalism - a despicable creed in any time but monstrously inappropriate in our connected world where co-operation and internationalism are essential. From the SNP we get no sense of this, no intelligence, no ability, no application to leaven their leaden depressed view of life. That their rancorous ideology is currently in favour beggars belief. I am however confident that my countrymen and women will in time  see sense and send this ridiculous rabble packing. Join in!