Itsy-bitsy castle

Rev Stuart Campbell at Wings Over Scotland responds to Adam Ramsay’s threats toward people who dispute him:

Adam Ramsay is Definitely a Liar

Ladies and gentlemen (and non-binary genderfluids), meet Adam Ramsay.

Adam Ramsay grew up in what his family describes as a “small castle” nestled in a 1300-acre estate in Perthshire that’s been in the family since 1232.

Check out the photo of the not all that small castle.

He was educated at the extremely exclusive private Glenalmond College, which he describes as the “poshest” school in Scotland, prone to outbreaks of “chav hunting”, and whose alumni include a lot of people called things like “Torquhil”, “Crispin”, “Rupert”, “Nairne”, “Dennison”, “Ernley”, “Beauchamp”, “Ninian”, “Logie”, “Adair” and “Turtle”, none of which we have made up, as well as figures known to Wings readers like Scottish Secretary Alister Jack and Times columnist Alex Massie and his father Allan.

Check out the photo of the enormous prodigy house-style Glenalmond College.

So that’s who is bullying and threatening feminist women on behalf of Open Democracy. Tribune of the people raised in one castle and educated in another. Intersectionalism has never been so intersecty before.

Comments

10 responses to “Itsy-bitsy castle”

  1. KBPlayer Avatar

    That’s one cool castle. I wonder if it’s open to the public?

  2. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    I am curious, though: as a Sooper-Seekrit Trans Ally Lair, is a castle better or worse than a windmill?

  3. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    Luxury beliefs indeed.

  4. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    I don’t particularly approve of mocking cool names like Crispin, though, nor good Celtic/Gaelic names like Nairne, Ninian, and Adair. Bespeaks a certain cultural chauvinism.

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Does it, when he’s Celtic/Gaelic himself? Which I assume he is?

    I don’t know. I kind of agree with you and kind of don’t. Ambivalent.

  6. Nullius in Verba Avatar
    Nullius in Verba

    I dunno. It can be hard to distinguish between normal self-deprecation and the Woke antipathy toward anything of European origin.

  7. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Oh well he’s certainly not Woke.

  8. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    KBPlayer, #1. I don’t know if the main house is open to the public, but a small attached wing, the former brewhouse, is let as a holiday cottage. The estate is advertised as an ecotourism site, with stand-alone holiday cottages, ‘glamping’, etc.

    Searching ‘Bamff House Perthshire’ brings up a lot of information.

  9. What a Maroon Avatar
    What a Maroon

    I looked up the estate online, and in reading the Wikipedia article I was reminded about their work reintroducing beavers to the UK (which I read about recently in this book). The Ramsays do good work in that regard. Perhaps Adam would be better served dedicating himself to the family vocation.

  10. Catwhisperer Avatar

    Pfft, call that a castle?