Scotland’s Dreaming
Rory Scothorne, 21 May 2020
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence
by John Lloyd.
Polity, 224 pp., £20, April 2020,978 1 5095 4266 6 Show More
by John Lloyd.
Polity, 224 pp., £20, April 2020,
The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation
by Scott Hames.
Edinburgh, 352 pp., £24.99, November 2019,978 1 4744 1814 0 Show More
by Scott Hames.
Edinburgh, 352 pp., £24.99, November 2019,
“... proof of the Union’s benefit to Scotland – its chief architects, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown, both of them Scottish, were also the most prominent leaders of the campaign against independence six years later. The role of Paterson’s Bank of England – and the currency it controls – is today the greatest single weakness in the case for ... ”