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this article  The Highland Line: confusion over interpretation
of political messages on the up?  Snippets of an overheard
conversation in a Ross-shire pub a few days ago triggered a
distant memory of Bernadette Devlin, as she then was, delivering
a lecture at Edinburgh University more than 40 years ago.  The
youngest (21) woman ever elected to the British Parliament, told
how as a socialist and a founder of the People's Democracy
group, she primarily wanted to appeal to the Catholic and
Protestant working class. However no matter how often she said
this, she was always taken to be a spokeswoman exclusively for
the Catholic nationalist cause. Almost immediately her point was
underlined by enthusiastic applause from supporters waving Irish
tricolours.  A very different kind of politics was on the agenda
in the Highland howff, and certainly no connection is trying to
be made. The issue is just how confusion over interpretation of
political messages se