they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity. have their hopes moved from settled. 10 years after the arab spring the rebellion starts june 7th on d w. scotland just wild expansive and beautiful. a land of breathtaking countryside. and bustling city. of kabul of life and of course full of scots many of whom are wondering these days what it actually means to be scottish. because there's always that sense if community in the cheekiness that you get from scottish people and i praise myself and not the people i'm just telling you how they feel

they don't go about setting enough lot of monarchs so we're sort of stapled if you like to. to doing the i think has grown in the get away from the flop play many scots feel they are fundamentally different from their english neighbors and want to be governed differently as well particularly since brooks is. once grounded mainly in the realm of folklore the idea of the scottish character may now have serious political ramifications for the united kingdom. but. 24 year old sophie gaul doesn't need

a home office her workplace is already isolated and very well ventilated. it's in the middle of scotland in the heart of the highlands at the foot of ben alder. so she spends the whole day outdoors among the mountains longs peak and more land. but. it's. the. getting the horses is also one of her tasks and even unskilled workers can help her . fingers and the others are already waiting. in the summer the working ponies carry the deer carcasses down the mountain. in winter they need more

to eat than the barren highlands can offer. the young scots woman says that becoming a deer hunter was the best decision she's ever made. there is something i'm really proud of. you can see the studs in the distance. even more there's always that sense of. humor. so she works on a private estate near darwinian the highlands. pandemic times it's a popular destination for hunters and holiday makers. but sophie sees herself as a paid environmentalist. that's thinking whether she's reform. or

restoring peace more she sees her job as serving nature and the land ready ready ready. hunting is part of the. ready ready ready ready winter impacts older animals in particular ready today so if he spots a herd that needs. there's there's definitely a few although i feel they're leaving i would have preferred to take there's a lot more over the winter i would. so. before they get to that stage before their stuff and as what we pride ourselves on doing as well. it may seem cool to shoot the animals but scotland has the highest density of red deer in europe and they breed like rabbits. left unchecked sophie explains the population would grow so fast that the animals would over graze the lamp store or succumb to diseases.

but these hinds are in luck today they're too far away for sophie to get a clear shot. they've just got a bit of darwin there a little bit of a fright but they know there's no threat so they've already. started walking towards them they would know where they wouldn't be holding well then. stalking them would take until evening. since it's not possible to shoot today it stays quiet and then all day. but this refrigerated room's contents are testimony to sophie's hunting skills. sophie loves her work caring for the animals all she has to do is rattle the food by. and they come running down the mountain.

right at the front is sophie's favorite amish. sophie's job may seem cut off from the world at large but she's always thinking about the bigger picture. when i know in 10 years the things i'm doing in the job will affect ever same from on the system to the wider scotland and not some magic thing and that's i suppose it's about the legacy. as we see again and again on our journey it's hard not to fall but with scotland. and the desire to express this love is not just felt by scott's.

fishing dirk out of the water raking up leaves maintaining the concrete. he was english and david who is scottish have spent many a weekend doing this for the last 20 years. these mysterious mounds which the men treat with such love are part of the world's largest 3 dimensional map of a country. it's in people's in the scottish borders region. when keith 1st discovered the map while on a walk in 1907 it was completely overgrown. looking down into the undergrowth i i noticed the shape and it looked like the shape of the mole of galloway which is a very conspicuous peninsula on the southwest side of the scottish coastline. and at that point i thought well no i've just got an overactive imagination. just out of curiosity i thought but it can't be if it were then if i walked northwest i

should find an island and to cut a long story short 10 minutes later i had walked north. discovered ben loeb and walked across around the more climbed over ben nevis and arrived at the north coast of scotland at the white house to ensure realising that this was a. relief model for the whole of scotland. the relief model features all the mountains and loss of the scottish landscape. keith a nuclear engineer set out to find the creators of his patriotic work to no avail. was lost in the local memory. and. being an engineer. this offended me because a lot of creative design effort went into producing it who had made it

and why and it eventually led to me discovering my colleague david cameron. david cameron is a retired architect from edinburgh is this part of the tree that. you know that the relief was the brainchild of yon tamasha a polish 2nd world war veteran who had married a scottish one. became a successful local hotel and bought the barony castle hotel and people. he wanted to create a monument to express his love for his adopted country. calling it the great polish map of scotland he had his compatriot causing huge profits fly and to build it. david had met cousin yet trough us in the early 1990 s. . the polish photographer was quite elderly and hadn't been to scotland for a long time. he asked david to search for his relief map.

this was. a pool of water on the left here. cartridge shells everywhere from clay pigeon shooting. and i reported back to him and he was so sad about it he looked so reserved for all this time and to all these trips over. so i had just made this rush promise. david hadn't got very far with his promise until keith stumbled upon the map. then the 2 men founded a charity scotland and in 2018 the relief was finally fully restored. at the time britain was still a member of the e.u. with stop mind in the same political union as poland of course this is no longer the case we're heading for troubled waters here because i i have supported breaks

it very strongly for a long time and still do so this is where david and i diverged i think it's a romantic idea that experience has shown to be totally impractical and i think a european union is a dysfunctional mess showing no signs of getting its act together i'm not going to accuse piece of having narrowness of mind or anything like that but i think. so we see although we're on one island i think somehow my impression is that the english people. and perhaps scots are more sort of looking at least that's how i like to think of it more and more scots believe that their country would be better off if it were as independent as it looks here in this pond. david is no fan of the government at london and

believes in the fundamental differences between the scottish and the english were we going. but he sees a total detachment from england as an impossibility if only for geological reasons . i think is rather interesting in a way that scotland in fact is geologically parts of the north american plate. and at one stage there would have been a sea between scotland and england when scotland. england england went underneath and then volcanoes came off in the light and so we're sort of a staple of if you like to. do england i think it's rather difficult to get away from the. problem that the shetland islands do not have. they don't fit on the relief map at all they're so far north of the scottish

mainland closer to norway than to edinburgh. yet shetland is still quintessentially scotland with its beautiful landscape and sparse population. the sense of community here is important and people take a great deal of pride in their small islands but there's a lot of curiosity about the wider world too. shetlanders have been buoyed by their oil which was 1st discovered here in the 1970 s. . the revenues from the oil industry have been invested wisely in the local community to build roads and public institutions. now with an eye on the future shetlanders are slowly transitioning to wind power. yet fishing is still the major source of income and. more fish are caught here than

in england northern ireland and wales put together. victor laurenson isn't catching anything at the moment. he's been stuck in the harbor for over a month. before he can take his ship the radiant star out along the west coast for self employed fisherman means a spare part from sweden the 12 that the. that's . the stupidest thing. i don't. mean i don't. know. the majority of the fishermen all over the united kingdom voted for it. victor

isn't the only one who disapproves of european colleagues encroaching on british waters. with their huge ships they take more than their fair share of the cash. yeah yeah. the church bells in the crowd town hall of blair wake are still like big ben. but now that britain has detached itself from the e.u. and scotland wants to separate from britain the desire for independence has spread to shetland to. steven and the other local councillors think that shetland should liberate itself

from both britain and scotland. and the benefit to the local community like it money is flowing. away from the west. away but these are life. any local political accountability. victor wants no more discussions about independence it costs him 1000 euros for every day he spends at sea in fuel alone he has 2 children and doesn't want any more uncertainty about the future.

if you. solidarity and sticking together i think scots talk about often. but ideals in reality are not always aligned. glasgow is certainly familiar with this. the old working class city is a tough place. glasgow is struggling to combat drugs violence and unemployment. is scotland's biggest city it's also the center of design culture and literature. on buchanan street in the city center we meet up with janie god like. the comedian is well known all over the country. in 2020 she won the scots speaker of the year award. the 59 year old has lived by the river clyde all her life i love the freedom

has made. this is the. this is. what you have got us here. you've got the. glasgow was a poor and it brought in so many people from all over the world and as. good as well you know we have problems like having a site. in the world but the one flying a big blast was this people just tell you how they feel they don't go up. on the floor. you can still pull up some day. you don't get sick this is still in. jail he grew up poor married young and ran up public her husband for 15 years. when they had to give it up she became a comedian. for many here she has become the voice of scotland funny honest and

unpretentious. but some people cannot stand her. boyfriends. one reason is that she's anything but ladylike. scottish comedians. when we swear especially a female because if you're. female and yes waiting is sounds like you're just being cheeky but if you're a female and you're. like everyone else in showbusiness janey's life has been hard hit by the coronavirus. this is the biggest audience upload some smart. everyone from oh that's not. how you did one of the. tough.

but her online audience is larger than ever. indeed jamie's popularity has grown along with that of nicholas sturgeon the scottish 1st minister. the coronavirus statistics are not much better in scotland or england but sturgeon's empathetic never in factual information of one people over. the journey does a voice over a sturgeon's daily briefings in her own words the 1st minister started to do these daily briefings. the message just became love love love and i thought well we're going. to be. attention you know get attention for it so i started to do and see the things she's really wanted to see like status but i'm going to die i'm going to start my top the class. i became her. translator basically i don't. i'm going to do what's right for the country

a fine rush things through and people die almost blank so see that's going to begin with but this is then. for months a consistent majority of the scots have said that prime minister boris johnson is going too far. the english politician is mixed really unpopular here. jenny also hopes that nicola sturgeon will win the election to the scottish parliament to me and that there will then be a 2nd referendum for scottish independence. that has made a fundamental difference to the situation. we were told by containing 14 we and people who support the band and we've wanted independence they would protect and keep it up. and it's basically a mom and dad same like going back terribly when you were. and you will have a pony and you're going to bed you sleep you break up and there's just

a cushion in the shape of a cat instead and that's. just why they lied and they lived in the light and that's what they died. for janey scottish independence is the only way forward. more and more scots are dreaming of being able to vote directly on the issues that affect them. the coronavirus epidemic has forced a folk singer to gives to stay at home and it meets with this he normally tours through the country and sings. during the lockdown he and the other inhabitants of wanlockhead the highest village in scotland altitude was decided to start a revolution. for hundreds of years one like head is belong to an aristocratic family. now the community wants to buy back 15 hectares of land from the current

duke of a clue. why is. it thought the history books why is that why is all that has is a lot just a private land or not in the u.k. because he's a jerk a very clever clues we call him and party. for the need to get a force that done to keep the course a done to improve the done nothing only does is. to recently like to shoot down so sky and get tax relief from the london homes you know sort of the done nothing what . certainly nothing for the community. lincoln rich bold move from england to wanlockhead scotland. to live in a civilized country at last as he puts it. here looking at this area here would mean we end somewhere along that horizon line there

the land that we will be had from a boy. one 3rd of scottish land belongs to just a few large landowners. who didn't have a revolution when he did it not that kind of revolution you know these landowners go back to the norman conquest so. it's a it's a long time situation really you know you're not going to get me to say much about this. instead of chasing the feudal lord off with a pitchfork and the old fashioned way they want to offer him 1600000 euros for the rugged land the barren hills and a few sheep. in the 18th century when it was worth owning the village but then duke of the clue built mines and smelting plants there. thanks to its lead in gold reserves one market was dubbed god's treasure trove. the clue also ran

a hunting lodge here. these days the tiny village is of little interest to the duke . but the wanlockhead locals love their village on their part which is after all the highest pub in scotland. during the pandemic people are keeping their distance the only 2 tourists are from england they're impressed by david lincoln's bold plan it's an affordable housing. the decency to the internet. and for its interesting that we've had for young people here so maybe that's why one of the things we want to do is try and create some local jobs. i think is amazing absolutely amazing. the. cool choice you. can go to the. nature of people working here. you know. you're doing your

job that you're here to do your job one market is not alone and it's endeavor all over scotland local councils have now bought up some 3 percent of the land. the scottish government to supporting this late land reform is best as it came. if an application is convincing the state will finance the acquisition of the other there's only about half of one markets $200.00 inhabitants have voted to pay off the duke lincoln is worried he might not get the necessary funding. but he's firmly convinced that his project is part of an overall trend. this is a very different country to england with. substantially different values. much more school is much more in tune to europe than england and i'm an englishman that's why i live in scotland so it's just a natural step. to go from there and here. in miniature

is the same kind of thing isn't it. dear hunter sophie things. independence is a question of attitude. like most of her fellow scots she wanted to stay in the european union. while a slight majority of scots feel the brics it is a good enough reason to separate from britain so few would rather wait. pride myself and call myself school ish 1st before i do if i do still love and. i absolutely love it as well but i can see where people are coming from west and the pain that's right now and if there is to be another referendum i don't think now is the time i think that's the hend things and it's time and then once we know where we're a lot where were our feet our. independence and self-determination mean different things to different people. geography and

history brought the scots to a point where many can picture a future outside the united kingdom. which only recently only through english voters became a reality was supposed to make britain more independent. but what it has shown most clearly is just how different scotland is something that could spell the united kingdom in its current form.

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