Summary
THERE is not, and there has never been, "one Scotland". The myth that we enshrine, that outer and public face of a modern, progressive, urbanised nation, speaks to a partial truth. It is but one face of that diamantine stone that makes up our collective identity.
There is another Scotland. It lies outwith the urban areas and the central belt. In this Other Scotland, the country of many little villages and towns, it can seem as if the convulsion of devolution has never happened. Or where it has registered at all, it has seemed as academic and distant as a faraway "other" country.See the full content of this document
Extract
Decline and Fall of the Other Scotland
This week, I found myself deep in this Other Scotland, in the folds of the Irvine Valley in Ayrshire, where I was born. The river stretches from the dramatic volcanic plug that is Loudoun Hill in the east, and flows down through the little valley towns of Darvel, Newmilns, Galston and Hurlford.
They are long, low s...See the full content of this document
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