"Scotland is the nation that invented everything, except itself."
As well as moving beyond a narrow band-width of political, economic and cultural thinking, we also need to transcend the tradition of melancholic victimhood and reminiscence of what ‘might have been’. It’s disabling and disempowering.
We are now in a period beyond that, a period dominated by Gramsci’s ‘morbid symptoms’ in which everything seems moribund and stuck. However painful, this period is unlikely to last forever. The crisis of British Labour has deep (and largely unacknowledged) consequences for the Union – and if we can go beyond the matters of personality politics and re-build a movement for change, we can climb out of the present morass and move towards a brighter future.