Casinos for Scotland

Plans by American billionaire Donald Trump to build a huge golf course and amusement park in Scotland have met with local protest. Simon Jenkins comments: "This is a massive development on what is a beautiful and deserted three-mile stretch of Scottish coast. ... [Trump specialises] in talking up world-class golf courses, some of which mysteriously change into housing estates and casinos or just vanish. ... This project is primarily about luxury holiday homes, not fairways. ... Every environmental outrage committed in the name of quick commercial gain, whether claimed for 'jobs' or 'investment' or 'modernisation', is later regretted, from the Algarve to the Amazon forest."

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