WHY SCOTLAND SHOULD RULE SCOTLAND

I remember my naive bemusement back in 1992, when, with a general election impending, Alasdair Gray published his book Why Scots Should Rule Scotland. I wrote a review of the book in which I said that, even though the book presented a succinct cultural history of Scotland, it never even mentioned, let alone addressed, the subject of its title. It took a shamefully long time for me to realise that his vivid description of Scotland was all the answer to the question that was needed. To make an...