John Lloyd

Should Nicola Sturgeon get a statue?

What Scotland’s ‘sermons in stone’ tell us about its history

issue 01 August 2020

The Scottish National party and its supporters like the world to see Scottish independence as a final act of decolonisation, Scots throwing off the yoke of English imperialism and, with it, the taint of having been imperialists themselves. Last week Scots academic Sir Geoff Palmer compared it to the process that led to his native Jamaica gaining its independence.

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