Better “a Scotland busier being born than busy dying…”
A typically passionate piece from Pat Kane in the Scotsman, arguing that Scottish independence is not something you can enjoy something of if you don’t have it at all. He believes this is a once off opportunity to re-arrange power relations on the island of Britain that won’t be coming back any time soon, if the Yes camp fails. I don’t know for certain whether Pat was inspired to write the piece after reading retired academic David Marquand’s hefty essay …