The eccentric people of Lewes in Sussex burned an effigy of the First Minister, Alex Salmond, on Bonfire Night last week. Various media apologists assured us that this was just good fun and that many other ‘weel kent’ faces have suffered a similar fate on previous occasions.
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Watching ‘Ubu and the Truth Commission’ at the Edinburgh Festival, it struck me that the individual narratives such as that of Ubu are representative of the national picture. They are each too an essential part of it and must participate. There was a dawning of realisation when
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It was a rare joy to spend an evening at the Usher Hall in the company of these two cultured and dignified , Muslim gentleman after a week in which we had witnessed malevolent scare-mongering by UKIP and the refusal of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Peter Robinson,
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“I heard from my parents and my grandparents that they wanted this country to be great“; the words of a young woman, interviewed in Kiev by BBC News. She was visiting the centre of the City to view the floral memorial to those who have died
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It’s been open season on the working class since the Tories and Lib-Dems came to power. Cameron has carried on with assaults on the trade unions, our representatives, where Thatcher and Major left off. Not that Blair did much to redress the balance. Capitalist employers are
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I was seriously wrong about Iain Duncan Smith when I described him in an article as ‘ a breath of fresh air’. About eight years ago, in the interests of the Credit Union Movement, I agreed to one of those hackneyed, template interviews where
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