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Rebecca McQuillan: How dour Scots could learn a lesson from Finland

Rebecca McQuillan: How dour Scots could learn a lesson from Finland

Apologies to the good people of Finland, but as a young adult, I knew only one thing about them – that they drank, a lot. No amateurs in that department ourselves, and frequently called the sick man of Europe because of our heavy drinking culture, we Scots could indulge in some rare schadenfreude when we thought of the poor Finns, up there in the dark on the edge of the Arctic circle – they were in a worse state than us, bless them.

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