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Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Scotland’s Lost Mandates

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  Quebec often comes up, even the newly formed UK Supreme court comparing our ancient Scotland nation to the Canadian state.    If you look ...
Sunday, 27 October 2024

Alex Salmond A Man for our Times

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  Alex Salmond 1954 - 2024 I met Alex Salmond once at the Edinburgh book festival and shook his hand out of respect. He seemed to thrive on ...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Positives for a Free Scotland II

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Recently I’ve had a health issue, and had to have various procedures and scans to access the problem and now another wait. Then a pre-op. As...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s

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    Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s   Scotland’s greatest political theorist of the modern times.  Tom Nai...

Scottish Nationalism for a Progressive modern state

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It’s a strange thing, I’ve been reading Tom Nairn ‘s excellent book the Break up of Britain (1977) and he makes many profound insights into ...
Friday, 28 April 2023

Walter Scott’s fake nationalism and false myths of Scotland

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“pervasive, second-rate sentimentalist, associated with tartan nostalgia.”  For Walter Scott -  “the past is gone, beyond recall.” ….it evok...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Saving the Scots Language

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Iona Fyfe There’s the issues of Russia’s recent imperialism invasion of Ukraine, is this cultural genocide or fear of the economic successes...
Thursday, 30 April 2020

The nature of nationalism and internationalism: Tribalism is not Nationalism

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When the European nations expanded and travelled by ship to the Americas, Indies and the far east, they settled, plundered and developed ...
Thursday, 29 November 2018

Globalization versus identity

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There is a significant struggle going on between remote, soulless, faceless, one size fits globalization – and our need for a sense of be...
Sunday, 31 December 2017

Historian Tom Devine

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“Scots suffer from “virtual universal historical illiteracy’ , says Tom Devine, “ perhaps that’s why they’ve struggled to engage with Ref...