Scotland’s Libertarian Left
About ten years ago, when I was working there, Canongate Books published a coffee-table hardback called The Commissar Vanishes. It was a visual record of the way the Soviet Union had manipulated their… Read More
Monthly Archive: November, 2007
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Are young women about to sink the Western Isles?
Gaels from the strict Free Church tradition see nothing at Callanish but a pile of stones made special only by heathen tradition. For such folk, relating the tales of Brigid and suggesting they… Read More
Democracy 2.0
It’s a poor sort of memory that works only backwards.- Cheshire Cat On the night of Scotland’s greatest sporting achievement, I watched Scotland defeat World Cup finalists France in a bar in Burntisland.… Read More
A History of Violence
38 men were murdered in Glencoe on the 13th February 1692. Anther 40 women and children died of exposure after their homes were burned. By modern standards of human carnage this is, in… Read More
Balmoral Buyout
Any serious attempt at dismantling the concentrated pattern of private landownership in Scotland will get nowhere if it does not face up to the fact that the Queen’s ownership of Balmoral is a… Read More
