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Bring Back the Danelaw

by Mark Simpson
December 23, 2011January 3, 2021

The legend of the Danish King Cnut attempting to bid back the waves springs to mind when considering the response of London apparatchiks to Scotland’s tidal movement away from the Union in general and London in particular. Scotland, led by a Scots Nationalist government recently re-elected by a landslide, is… Read More »Bring Back the Danelaw

The Smell of Chip Fat at Teatime

by Mark Simpson
January 30, 2007June 30, 2022

Mark Simpson on the search for ‘The North’ (Independent on Sunday, 28 January, 2007) Stuart Maconie is looking for the north. It’s not really so difficult to find, but we’re only a few pages into his new travelogue Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North and he’s already hopelessly lost.… Read More »The Smell of Chip Fat at Teatime

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