Tag: Ferguson’s shipyard
Letter from Scotland
Comrade Nicola Sturgeon is leading the revolution once again. She has called all the Soviets together to declare that Scotland stands ready to take its share of the refugees from Syria and the other...
Letter from Scotland
“They’re like a cliff of seagulls.” I’ve never forgotten the colourful phrase Donald Dewar once used to describe the hollering on the opposition benches in parliament. It just captures the whirling excitement, the screeching...
Letter from Scotland
The shipbuilding industry, the icon of Scotland’s mighty industrial past, has been dealt a shuddering, maybe fatal, blow. Fergusons, the last commercial shipyard on the Clyde, has gone bust. Some 70 men, and a...