Summary
FEEL free to slather on some woad today, in honour of William Wallace. This is the 700th anniversary of the day he was hanged, disembowelled while alive, chopped up, partially barbecued and publicly displayed. If London's police chief in 1305 faced f lak and human rights challenges over this extreme public execution policy, they go unrecorded.
Anniversaries bring examination of the nation's navel. The past is there to be celebrated, regretted, disputed and reinterpreted, often for present-day political ends. Hollywood can distort it on an epic scale. But the Wallace story risks a return to the politics of grievance, grudge, claymore and sending the English homeward tae think again.See the full content of this document
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We Must Get Out, Get a Life, Get a Future
These days are gone now, as is oft drunkenly sung, and in the past they must remain.
So, can we get on with 21stcentury Scotland, and where we're going?Happily, some folk are heading down that road already. In St An...See the full content of this document
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