Great article, particularly this bit I cant stop thinking about the 2012 Olympics. Then we were British; we saw ourselves then, and when that medal table came up third! Third in the world! Tiny little Britain, with our funny, peculiar, astonishing opening ceremony, producing world-class sports star after star after star. Were we Scots not British then? And would we now turn away? To be tossed out into a hostile world where computers hurl countries up like fivestones for incremental points in a market system nobody understands? When Tim Berners-Lee tweeted, during the Olympics ceremony: this is for everyone did he not mean us all? From craggy glens to rocky Cornish coves; from tumbling Yorkshire stonewalls to green and boundless Welsh fields, to the Kent hops; from the vast flat plains of netherlandish Norfolk to the grey formal stones of the New Town; echoing through the silent shipyards of those great brothers-in-arms: Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast? Because I want that wishy-washiest of all liberal things: a world with fewer walls, fewer barriers between peoples, between us all. And so my tiny, mimsy, quivering hand is raised, along with many others, more and more. And I shall try to be less timid; to be more sure, more bold. To shout out loud, hearts and guts: Naw. No. No. Never. Swear at me all you like. You shall not take it. My home. My land. Scotland please dont go!!
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:04:11 +0000
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