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Christopher Silver

scottish writer and journalist

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Month: May 2016

Brexit Posted on26th May 201624th March 2018

Brexit is a journey to a place that doesn’t exist

To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on14th May 201627th June 2017

Why Holyrood needs independent minds to flourish

What do the people want of the place? They want it to be filled with thinking persons as open and adventurous as its architecture. Edwin […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on13th May 201622nd June 2017

Scotland Divided?

When Hugh MacDiarmid contested Alec Douglas-Home’s Kinross and Western Perthshire seat for the Communist Party in 1964, he achieved a tally of 127 votes. In […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on13th May 20162nd August 2017

Caution the by-word as conservative Scotland shuns radical thought

Post-election analysis by Christopher Silver When Hugh MacDiarmid contested Alec Douglas-Home’s Kinross and Western Perthshire seat for the Communist Party in 1964, he achieved a […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on4th May 20161st July 2017

Polling day comment: However we vote, Holyrood needs independent minds to flourish

What do the people want of the place? They want it to be filled with thinking persons as open and adventurous as its architecture. Edwin Morgan, For […] Read More

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