Twenty-one years ago, I trudged the mean streets of Glasgow’s East End, proffering a message hardly anyone there wanted to hear. I wasn’t a Jehovah’s Witness, nor was I selling insurance, although I might as well have been.
Month: July 2008
Terminal Decline
The cautionary tale of post Blair Britain. 100 years ago, a mere nanosecond in the human story, the Westminster parliament was the political centre of the biggest extension of global political power since the Roman Empire. In 1908 the British Empire spanned the planet it was the first truly global exercise of power. In 2008 British troops are huddled in Basra airbase as the descendants of the fighters to that took on General Haldane’s troops fight it out for control of the Iraqi city. The soldiers of the Queen look on impotently as a Shia on Shia civil war unfolds. …
Why Blog?
It is over twenty years since I sold my first opinion piece to a Newspaper (the Scotsman). The paper was still in the hot metal phase, although that change was looming.
