Editing Anti-English sentiment (section)

===Scotland===
{{See also|Scottish national identity|Category:England–Scotland relations}}
In 1998, 19 year-old apprentice mechanic Mark Ayton was punched to the ground and kicked to death by three youths. Ayton's father explicitly cited his English accent as a factor contributing to the attack.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gang-kicked-boy-to-death-because-he-had-an-english-accent-1160642.html | title=Gang kicked boy to death 'because he had an English accent' | website=[[Independent.co.uk]] | date=7 May 1998 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/30th-may-1998/12/a-very-scottish-death | title=A VERY SCOTTISH DEATH » 30 May 1998 » the Spectator Archive }}</ref> Court proceedings recorded that immediately before the attack, the attackers were singing ''[[Flower of Scotland]]'', which includes the lines "And sent them homeward, Tae think again": an allusion to ridding Scotland of the English.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=d34c87a6-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7 | title=THE LORD ADVOCATE v. IAN ADAM WHELSON GRAHAM, JOHN PURVES AND ROSS GRAVESTOCK }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/533084.stm | title=BBC News &#124; SCOTLAND &#124; Killers freed on death anniversary }}</ref>

In 1999, an inspector and race relations officer with [[Lothian and Borders Police]] said that a correlation had been noticed between the establishment of the [[Scottish Parliament]] and anti-English incidents.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/antienglish-taunts-drive-family-over-the-border-1071347.html |title=Anti-English taunts drive family over the border |work=The Independent |date=17 February 1999 |access-date=21 May 2009 | location=London | first=Stephen | last=Goodwin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102065217/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/antienglish-taunts-drive-family-over-the-border-1071347.html |archive-date=2 November 2012 }}</ref>

A 2005 study by Hussain and Millar of the Department of Politics at the [[University of Glasgow]] examined the prevalence of Anglophobia in relation to [[Islamophobia]] in Scotland. One finding of the report suggested that national "phobias" have common roots, independent of the nations towards whom they are directed. The study states that:

{{blockquote|Scottish identity comes close to rivalling low levels of education as an influence towards Anglophobia. Beyond that, having an English friend reduces Anglophobia by about as much as having a Muslim friend reduces Islamophobia. And lack of knowledge about Islam probably indicates a broader rejection of the 'other', for it has as much impact on Anglophobia as on Islamophobia.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2024%20-%20Hussain-Miller.pdf| title=Towards a Multicultural Nationalism? Anglophobia and Islamophobia in Scotland| last=Hussain| first=Asifa |author2=Miller, William| date=March 2005| work=Devolution Briefings: Briefing No. 24| publisher=Economic & Social Research Council| page=4| access-date=20 July 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603080246/http://www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2024%20-%20Hussain-Miller.pdf| archive-date=2013-06-03}}</ref>}}

The study goes on to say (of the English living in Scotland): "Few of the English (only 16 per cent) see the conflict between Scots and English as even 'fairly serious'." The study found that Anglophobia was slightly less prevalent than Islamophobia but that, unlike Islamophobia, Anglophobia correlated with a strong sense of Scottish identity.

Hussain and Millar's research suggested that Anglophobia had fallen slightly since the introduction of [[Devolution in the United Kingdom|devolution]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2024%20-%20Hussain-Miller.pdf| title=Towards a Multicultural Nationalism? Anglophobia and Islamophobia in Scotland| last=Hussain| first=Asifa |author2=Miller, William| date=March 2005| work=Devolution Briefings: Briefing No. 24| publisher=Economic & Social Research Council| page=4| access-date=20 July 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603080246/http://www.devolution.ac.uk/pdfdata/Briefing%2024%20-%20Hussain-Miller.pdf| archive-date=2013-06-03}}</ref>

In 2009, a woman originally from England was assaulted in an allegedly anti-English racially motivated attack.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7826264.stm |title='Anti-English' punch hurts woman |work=BBC News |date=13 January 2009 |access-date=21 May 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215061115/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7826264.stm |archive-date=15 February 2009 }}</ref> Similar cases have been connected with football matches and tournaments, particularly international tournaments, in which the English and Scottish football teams often compete with each other.<ref>{{cite news | last=Urquhart |first=Frank |url=http://sport.scotsman.com/worldcupallegiance/Aberdeen-leaders-condemn-antiEnglish-attacks.2789878.jp |title=Aberdeen leaders condemn anti-English attacks in city - Scotsman.com Sport |publisher=Sport.scotsman.com |access-date=21 May 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Horne |first=Marc |url=http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/latestnews/Moderator-says-antiEnglish-bigotry-is.3786145.jp |title=Moderator says anti-English bigotry is 'like sectarianism' |work=Scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com |access-date=21 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728085023/http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/latestnews/Moderator-says-antiEnglish-bigotry-is.3786145.jp |archive-date=28 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/5139054.stm |title=England fan assaulted in Aberdeen |work=BBC News |date=3 July 2006 |access-date=21 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121135410/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/5139054.stm |archive-date=21 January 2009 }}</ref> There was a spate of anti-English attacks in 2006 during the [[2006 FIFA World Cup|FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[The Times]]| title=Woman attacked in Scotland 'because she sounded English'| url=https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5512401.ece| author=Reid, Melanie| date=14 January 2009| access-date=16 April 2011| location=London| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920181122/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5512401.ece| archive-date=20 September 2011}}</ref> In one incident a 7-year-old boy wearing an England shirt was punched in the head in an Edinburgh park.<ref>{{cite news |title=Park disgrace as boy, 7, in England top punched by yob |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/park-disgrace-as-boy-7-in-england-top-punched-by-yob-1-989646 |date=21 June 2006 |access-date=4 August 2019 |work=The Scotsman}}</ref>

In 2017 Kevin McKenna, former Scottish Journalist of the Year, penned an article in ''The National'' labelling English people living in Scotland as "colonising wankers".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/15045023.kevin-mckenna-were-colonised-by-wrs-time-for-scotland-to-show-self-respect/ | title=Kevin McKenna: We're colonised by w*****rs ... Time for Scotland to show self-respect | work=The National | date=25 January 2017 }}</ref>

In 2020, groups of Scottish nationalists picketed the English border, airports and railway stations sporting hazmat suits and dogs, intent on stopping English people from crossing the England-Scotland border.<ref>[https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/stay-the-fk-away-convoy-of-scottish-nationalists-attempt-blockade-on-english-border-2904148 Health. Coronavirus]</ref> The Scottish Secretary [[Alistair Jack]] accused Scotland's First Minister [[Nicola Sturgeon]] of having incited the incident by inaccurately using COVID statistics to stoke anti-English sentiment <ref>{{cite web | url=https://uk.style.yahoo.com/alister-jack-nicola-sturgeon-coronavirus-133454980.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEZAF2BQzXYwc97qrtoUCp3MNwH69TSDOjfmVqpyzoplGK0lomvjxN_AG_QHgIT0l9xZM7zrWbqKodp_J6cr-NTbuGf-gWCtq65qc7FWUQ8gTY2JVttfE23iQr158ze4mt7Ji8tylzeqOuVma1DyAt4HLCuz2eW6-XGIJtQU-vz9 | title=Minister accuses Nicola Sturgeon of inflaming tensions at English-Scottish border | date=17 September 2020 }}</ref>