Brown – Peter Geoghegan

On the Campaign Trail

By peterPosted on 18th September 2014Posted in independence, London Review of Books, ScotlandTagged Brown, Labour, SNP

On Saturday, with only days to go before the independence referendum, thousands of Yes supporters gathered on Buchanan Street in Glasgow, waving Saltires and singing ‘Flower of Scotland’. At around the same time, more than ten thousand Orangemen staged a pro-union march in Edinburgh. The standards at the head of the flute bands hailed from […]

Will the promise of a new approach bring the same old, same old?

By peterPosted on 18th May 2010Posted in Magazine, PoliticsTagged Brown, Cameron, Clegg, Holyrood, Scotland

Having voted LibDem in the recent UK election, this comment piece for the excellent Holyrood magazine betrays an anger with Clegg and his ‘new politics’ that I think plenty of left-of-centre voters felt in the immediate aftermath of the coalition agreement, and many still feel today. “This is the start of the new politics I […]