And what are you doing GUEST other than pontificating? I don't know about you but I have learnt a great deal from reading the exchange that mainly came about with questions being put to GUEST Observer to answer. Those answers were given and having checked the points made those answers were correct. To state that the Head of State of the United Kingdom is a paid for by the British taxpayer, and reading the contributions by Jim McLean he definitely thinks that they are, is inaccurate and incorrect. As for the song? It is pure propaganda designed to misinform. You would appear to be firmly of the same political persuasion as Jim McLean - your remark about the Scottish History Lecturer is racist - and you forgot something:

"for the facts of a historical event you went to the history books (well, facts from the point of view of the winner)but for how the people-- ie The People - actually thought / felt about what happened, the emotions, (well the thoughts, feelings and emotions from the point of view of the losers) you went to the songs and ballads."

By your last remark it would appear that you do not subscribe to the principle of free speech, or only subscribe to it when it suits your point of view.