Tally ho and two fingers to Holyrood

Jeremy Watson
Scotland on Sunday, 25th October 2005

TO SOME he is an eminent military historian and a distinguished former editor of one of Britain's most blue-blooded newspapers, who was knighted for his services to journalism. Others view Sir Max Hastings as the kind of arrogant, toffee-nosed, self-regarding, would-be aristocrat who gives gun-wielding, fly-casting Englishmen abroad in the Highlands a very well-deserved bad name.

Those in Scotland who subscribe to the latter view are about to get their prejudices reinforced. A new book by Hastings with the anodyne title of Country Fair: Tales of the Countryside, Shooting and Fishing contains an extraordinary attack on the Scottish Parliament, which he accuses of "declaring war" on landowning interests and "indeed on field sports" through its recently passed Land Reform Act ...

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