Tenement Scots
John Cleese referred to the editor of this magazine as a ‘tenement Scot’. Do more Scots live in tenements?
— The term tenement became associated in Scotland with 14-storey blocks built in Edinburgh in the 18th and 19th centuries. One collapsed in 1861, killing 35 residents and leading to an Improvement Act which largely did away with the old blocks.
— Today, 38% of homes in Scotland are flats or maisonettes, markedly higher than the 21% in England and Wales. But only 14,900 (0.6%) are ‘buildings in multiple occupancy’, with shared facilities like the original tenements.
More than a landslide
Hungarians voted by 98% to 2% to reject the EU’s plan to resettle a share of refugees in the country. Some referendums where the result wasn’t so close:
99.83% of Eritreans voted in 1993 for independence from Ethiopia.
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