Ouch... its coz most streams have dried up. I was caught out low in water on Ben Lomond on Tue. Every wee stream totally empty. I did find a spring eventually of peaty coloured water full of floaters and fortunately lived to tell the tale. But I wouldn't touch streams further down with a bargepole

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At least the capitalists of yesteryear created jobs, however stingy the wages, unlike today's finance capitalists who create money from money

Anita and William are joined once again by Patrick Radden Keefe to discuss how the British Army in Northern Ireland employed methods used against other anti-colonial struggles across the British Empire.

Photo of Vance and all the Greenlanders who support being part of the US:

However, given divergent timelines, many victims of 18th c lowland clearance (and their counterparts in southern highlands/Argyll) were less lucky– it was the semi-serfdom you mentioned in the Renfrewshire mines or the squalor of the emerging urban slums. For them, imperial dividends came much later

That's a v interesting point. Another complicating factor in shaping the popular narrative the fact that the victims of the most atrocious Highland clearances in the late 19th c (e.g. Sutherland etc) emigrated straight to the colonies (i.e they were one could say 'beneficiaries' of colonialism)

I think there's long overdue debate on whether and how waves of internal subjugation (by British or pre-1707 Scottish state) conflate with the 'national' experience of the peasantry/working class. That's of course a separate question to whether they benefited from empire overseas.

i.e. Nairn's assertion that Scotland was two nations not one, I'm not convinced fully matches the subaltern reality on the ground

I think there's long overdue debate on whether and how waves of internal subjugation (by British or pre-1707 Scottish state) conflate with the 'national' experience of the peasantry/working class. That's of course a separate question to whether they benefited from empire overseas.

Indeed, given that its compulsory high school reading, it likely does shape national consciousness - As a scholar of agrarian political economy, I certainly agree on LGG on many issues relating to the Scottish peasantry, and the fact that the lowland experience had a lot in common with the highlands

I think Scotland differs somewhat from England in the way class oppression took on a cultural (one could say 'colonial') character, given the historic dominance of an Anglicised aristocracy since at least the 12th century

Very true, yet there's good reason why this has become part of a subaltern 'national' consciousness. Large share of lowland urban population is part-descended from victims of Clearance, and similar forms of internal subjugation/Anglicization took place in southern Scotland a century or 2 earlier