Book description
Why won't Scots simmer down?
Why batter on about independence when folk voted No a decade back?
After all. Scotland's not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it's also not as Conservative, as keen on Brexit, or as willing to flog public assets to Tory party…
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This book was published by Luath Press, a Scottish publisher. Lesley Riddoch is a well known Scottish writer and broadcaster. But you don't need to be Scottish to appreciate a book about how colonial powers function. This book is not a downer, however, but is optimistic about how a small nation (all be it a very rich nation if it were allowed to conduct its own affairs) could thrive, just as the Scandinavian ones do: for the people by the people. She is imagining a Scotland free from the shackles of its over lord in Westminster, and it is full…
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