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BARRING unforeseen circumstances, the Scottish LibDems will shortly elect Alex Cole-Hamilton as their new leader. Cole-Hamilton is arguably only in the Holyrood Parliament because the Tories in his Edinburgh Western seat voted tactically, as did Labour voters in the constituency in 2016, all to keep out the SNP. In strictly historical terms, the Scottish Liberal Democrats are the successors to the Liberal Party which dominated Scottish politics for much of the late 19th century and early 20th century. They once had truly great men in their ranks including two of the greatest Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, William Ewart Gladstone and Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. Two other Liberal MPs for Scottish seats, Herbert Henry Asquith and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, also made it to No 10, Asquith holding his East Fife seat for 30 years while Campbell-Bannerman remains the only PM born in Glasgow. ....
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AS I have shown over the last few weeks, Scotland’s Radical War or Scottish Insurrection of 1820, centred on Glasgow, was a long time coming, and events in England and the influence of Englishmen in particular proved crucial in the run up to that revolutionary year. After the huge meeting on Glasgow Green in October 1816, the radical movement transformed as weavers and men from other trades formed societies, usually based on workers’ unions, to campaign for political change and better conditions for workers. The movement started in and around Glasgow and there was much talk of revolution – many of the radicals were former soldiers who had returned from beating Napoleon to find no jobs for them. ....
Sir Tom Devine: ‘I’ve always thought England would destroy the Union’ Sir Tom Devine is Scotland’s most distinguished historian since Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), but unlike the latter at least by reputation he likes a joke. Shown to an alcove reserved for us in La Lanterna, his favourite restaurant in central Glasgow, he tells the waiters that he is on day release from Barlinnie, Scotland’s most distinguished jail. He keeps it up, enjoying the initial puzzlement. Seated, he says he’s between two large meals, so won’t have much. “She who must be obeyed” his wife, Catherine had so decreed. The meal to come is with his large family of children and grandchildren; the gluttony past was yesterday’s magnificent dinner of whisky-kippered salmon, beetroot, salsify and lemon, Dunlop (Ayrshire) cheese, bread and butter pudding, roast beets, leek porridge and rhubarb pie with cream sent to him by the Sir Walter Scott society. Covid-19, which also must b ....