Politics is culture and culture is politics and the interest lies in the moments, and the areas, in which they meet. These are the places of creative tension, the mesh or inflection points that spin us towards one proposition or another, radically different, future. Yet Scotland — this small, divided, house — is a place where culture and politics now lead in two different, perhaps irreconcilable, directions. There is a struggle for supremacy between culture and politics, you see, and the outcome will matter enormously for us all. Broadly speaking, our culture is a nationalist one but our…

Source: The Times August 21, 2017 23:03 UTC