ANNIE’S SONG – for the women of Scotland It wouldn’t have mattered much had Annie Davidson McEwen been one of Dundee’s property owners in February 1918 because her vote would never have been used, she having died in the flu epidemic later that year. Her neighbours did
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Sovereignty is the Brexit buzzword. My dictionary suggests some synonyms for it – supremacy, hegemony, ascendancy and domination among others. The front men in their campaign, Johnson, Gove, Villiers and Farage would be quick to assert that they are merely seeking a self-governing state with powers to
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Winston Churchill died in 1965; he was last elected to office in 1961. On Sunday the Observer published the results of a survey by the pollsters, BritainThinks . Churchill topped the poll with an impressive 100% in the qualities that were determined necessary for leadership – ‘being decisive,
Read more →The BBC was in the vanguard to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the funeral of Winston Churchill. For a fortnight we had trailers and tributes to the achievements of Britain’s wartime leader. The right was unrestrained in the sycophantic revisionism and selective amnesia of the language used to describe
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