by Gordon Craigie
Queensferry Crossing - The bridge unionist politicians love to hate… except when they’re claiming credit for it!
Many French philosophers were heavily influenced by Scots - Voltaire, for example, is credited with saying, “We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.” So it’s interesting, to me at least, how often another classic French quotation, by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, so accurately sums up the kind of Groundhog Day experience that we independistas seem to permanently live in - “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Aye, the more things change, the more they stay the same…