Jack McConnell is right to fight and we should all be behind him; Analysis: The First Minister's opponents think his anti-bigotry plans are naive, but where are their big ideas? asks Iain Macwhirter

The Sunday Herald | December 8, 2002| | Copyright

It is certainly shameful, but I don't know why the First Minister calls sectarianism "secret". You don't have to look very hard to find religious intolerance alive and well and living openly in the streets and sporting grounds of Scotland - and not just in Glasgow. They have flute bands in Edinburgh too, you know, and even Hearts matches have been infected by sectarian hatred and Red Hand flags.

I seem to recall a Scottish junior minister warning the Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, a couple of years back that his presence at the Carfin Grotto in Lanarkshire would likely incite sectarian ...

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