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Home? A Remote Scottish Island
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Home? A Remote Scottish Island

Lord of the Isles, until Trump developer arrives

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Jim Buie
Nov 25, 2024
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In a “stop the world, I want to get off” fantasy, I thought about moving to Scotland, my forefathers’ ancestral homeland. I've discovered that Donald Trump is likely to follow me there. He’s more Scottish than I am, and certainly part of the Scottish diaspora. His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, grew up on the nearby Isle of Lewis and he likes to say “it’s g…

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