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.
That’s one cool castle. I wonder if it’s open to the public?
I am curious, though: as a Sooper-Seekrit Trans Ally Lair, is a castle better or worse than a windmill?
Luxury beliefs indeed.
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.
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.
I dunno. It can be hard to distinguish between normal self-deprecation and the Woke antipathy toward anything of European origin.
Oh well he’s certainly not Woke.
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.
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.
Pfft, call that a castle?