Scenes from Highland Life: Jane-Sharon Regent. Parts nine – twelve

Nine. Three days since the referendum I’m in a car hurtling towards a farmhouse in the darkness. The first Women for independence Highland meeting since the vote, and the kitchen is packed, standing room only, almost out of cups for tea, and everyone’s talking at once, louder and louder and louder. One woman says, maybe […]
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Friday, October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Scenes from Highland Life, The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Scenes from Highland life, part two – part eight: Jane-Sharon Regent

Scenes from Highland life, part two The sun is low over the horizon, and my friend, now in his late 60s, leans on the bonnet of the car he’s fixing up. I don’t see why we shouldn’t run our own country, he says, I don’t see why not. His daughter, he says, is ‘mad for […]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | Filed under: Scenes from Highland Life, The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Scenes from Highland life, part one: Jane-Sharon Regent

Scenes from Highland life, part one I was talking to the man who runs the fish van, he’s a former soldier. He knows a lot of serving soldiers and they’re all voting YES, because they don’t want drawn into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore, they’ve had enough of British adventurism. His friends in recruitment […]
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Saturday, October 4, 2014 | Filed under: Scenes from Highland Life, The Referendum and Scottish Politics
