The odd place post industrial Scotland stands going into May’s parliamentary elections…

It always surprises me how little people in the rest of the UK really know about Scotland. It shouldn’t. My own knowledge of Wales is sketchy in the extreme. However, for the benefit of Slugger readers, whom I assume to be mostly in Northern Ireland, here is an introduction to North Britain, one in which I hope to correct some preconceptions. Two things are necessary to be able to understand Scotland today. First, 21st century Scotland was born from the collapse …

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