James Michie

James Crain Michie (24 June 1927 – 30 October 2007) was an English poet, translator and editor, of Scottish and American descent. Quotes The Scotch—what a verminous race!Canny, pushy, chippy, they’re all over the place,Battening off us with false bonhomie,Polluting our stock, undermining our economy.Down with sandy hair and knobbly knees!Suppress the tartan dwarves and the Wee Frees!Ban the kilt, the skean-dhu and the sporranAs provocatively, offensively foreign!It’s time Hadrian’s Wall was refortifiedTo pen them in a ghetto on the other side.I would go further. The nationDeserves not merely isolationBut comprehensive extermination.We must not flinch from a solution.(I await legal prosecution.) "Friendly Fire", in The Spectator (14 August 2004) External links Category:1927 births Category:2007 deaths Category:Poets from England Category:Translators from England Category:Editors from England Category:University of Oxford alumni