You know, he was a tax dodger for many years, but he hasn’t done Scotland dirty really. Good read here too, worth a few minutes of your time
Didn’t he advocate for beating women?
Also if he was a tax dodger then he has done scotland dirty since he’s effectively stolen from everyone in the country.
Even at the time he garnered a lot of controversy for those remarks and it would be fair to say that his comments have made him beyond the pale for some people.
At the same time, he’s got a complicated legacy where he raised the profile of the performing arts in Scotland. Additionally, he was born almost 100 years ago so it maybe shouldn’t be too surprising that he had some backwards attitudes.
tax dodger == non-dom? You see that quite a lot with Scottish celebrities. Irvine Welsh springs to mind too and his work is more explicitly political.
Well he chose to live elsewhere re: the tax. He did live in Barbados for many many years. And he also paid a shitload of tax apparently, he opened his books in later years too. And his women beating comments were blown out of context slightly
Describing an “openhanded slap” as “justified,” Connery also said it could be used “if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning,” adding, “If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it.”
I’m gonna say a net gain still
