It affirms the hope of building a community within our land that is welcoming to the stranger and which is open to the other and to the different; a hope that requires the energies not only of the Parliament but of the whole people.The character of that hope is expressed in the words of Robert Crawford's poem, "Scotland":"to be miniaturised is not small-minded.To love you needs more details than the Book of Kells—your harbours, your photography, your democratic intellectStill boundless, chip of a nation".May...