Robert McNeil - Embrace the curse of being born Scottish with both hands… but don't drop that pie

AT LAST, the truth is out. It's not fish suppers, pies, beer or other sublime scoffables that make Scottish citizens fat. It's the rotten weather. You may laugh and, it's fair to say, top dismissers were rushing to rubbish the theory yesterday. But surely there's truth in it.

Let me explain the science, using some coloured beads and four elastic bands. In Scotland, the sun rarely shines because, yea, the citizens all did bad things in previous lives and have been reincarnated here as a punishment. The lack of sunshine mea...