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Why won’t Scots simmer down? Why batter on about independence when folk voted No a decade back? After all. Scotland’s not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it’s also not as Conservative, as keen on Brexit, or as willing to flog public assets to Tory party pals. So does Nicola Sturgeon’s departure terminally damage the case for independence? The answer, with all respect to her legacy, is no. Scotland has bigger fish to fry. In this book, Lesley Riddoch makes an impassioned call to action, weaving academic evidence with story, international comparison and anecdote to explain why Scotland is ready to step forward as the world’s newest state.
Why won’t Scots simmer down?
Why batter on about independence when folk voted No a decade back?
After all. Scotland’s not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it’s also not as Conservative, as keen on Brexit, or as willing to flog public assets to Tory party pals.
So does Nicola Sturgeon’s departure terminally damage the case for independence?
The answer, with all respect to her legacy, is no.
Scotland has bigger fish to fry.
In this book, Lesley Riddoch makes an impassioned call to action, weaving academic evidence with story, international comparison and anecdote to explain why Scotland is ready to step forward as the world’s newest state.
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LESLEY RIDDOCH is an award-winning broadcaster,<br />
writer, journalist, independence campaigner, podcaster<br />
and land reform activist. She writes weekly columns for<br />
The National and is a contributor to The Guardian, BBC<br />
Question Time, Scotland Tonight and Any Questions.<br />
She is founder and Director of Nordic Horizons, a<br />
policy group that brings Nordic experts to the Scottish<br />
Parliament and produces a popular weekly podcast.<br />
<strong>Lesley</strong> has presented You and Yours on BBC Radio 4,<br />
The Midnight Hour on BBC2 and The People’s Parliament<br />
and Powerhouse on Channel 4, and has been a columnist<br />
for the Herald and Scotsman newspapers. She founded<br />
the Scottish feminist magazine Harpies and Quines, won<br />
two Sony awards for her daily Radio Scotland show and<br />
edited The Scotswoman – a 1995 edition of The Scotsman<br />
written <strong>by</strong> its female staff. She was a trustee of the Isle<br />
of Eigg Trust that pioneered the successful community<br />
buyout in 1997. She has presented and co-produced films<br />
about the Faroes, Iceland, Estonia and Norway. <strong>Lesley</strong><br />
was awarded a PhD, the Fletcher of Saltoun Award for<br />
her contribution to Scotland’s civic life and Independence<br />
Campaigner of the Year award in 2020. She lives near<br />
the sea in north Fife.<br />
Luath Press is an independently owned and managed book<br />
publishing company based in Scotland and is not aligned to<br />
any political party or grouping.
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