who wrote Auld Lang Syne and is venerated as the national poet by Scots and their descendants across the globe--as 'no more than a king of sentimental doggerel'.Almost inevitably, Scotland took umbrage yesterday at the Newsnight presenter's remarks.
Among the kinder reactions was that Yorkshireborn Paxman was being silly and talking nonsense, while one scholar accused him of 'poking a stick in Jock's rib'.
from Daily Mail: Paxman outrages Scots by calling Burns' poetry 'sentimental doggerel'
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