Alex Salmond has died at the untimely age of only 69. It is difficult for younger people to realise the extent to which Scottish nationalism was a fringe political view as recently as the 1980s. To a huge extent that is down to Alex Salmond. Salmond’s passing is not, as some political opponents have hoped, the death of the case or the cause for Scottish independence. I’m more with Dick Gaughan or Jean Jacques Burnel and Hugh Alan Cornwell on the issue of Heroes.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2024 17:42 UTC