THE LIES THAT BIND
Stuart McHardy is the author of many books including The Quest for the Nine Maidens and A New History of the Picts and the recent Scotland’s Future History.
A published poet he is also Director of the Scots Language Centre and President of the Pictish Arts Society, travelling all over Scotland to appear at festivals, in schools and speaking to various groups and societies.
Below: by Stuart McHardy T
HERE has been a shiſt in Scotland in the past few years. For almost half of the Scotish people, British
politics are no longer ‘their’ politics and they have become tired of their needs being so far down the list of priorities of the Westminster political system. The reality that London, with its bankers and hedge-fund barrow boys, sucks wealth from the rest of the island, has become increasingly clear as has the fact that for the vast majority of the past 300 years Scotland has been a net contributor to the British Exchequer.
The increase in political awareness, and activism, north of the border shows that the people of Scotland have had enough of the current situation and understand the Westminster system is roten to the core. The reaction to this resurgence of democratic involvement in Scotland from the media down south has been all too predictable and the truth of the mater is that the current bilious anti-Scotishness has deep roots.
In my latest book, Scotland’s Future History, I have looked at various periods of our past and suggested that the standard interpretation of these has till now been inaccurate. Some may quibble as to how much this is due to the perceived necessity of adapting to a political situation in which Scotland, despite the fine words of the 1707 Treaty of Union, has always been very much a junior partner in the arrangement, if not in fact an actual colony.
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Tomas Muir, a radical lawyer, transported to
Australia in 1790
Recently atention has been paid to Thomas Muir, a radical lawyer transported to Australia with several others in 1790s, having been convicted of sedition for daring to call for the reform of the blatantly corrupt Parliamentary system of Great Britain.
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