Landing 2/1
Culture and books
Music and writing that bear on the same questions as the rest of the site.
2 pieces, 2011–2017
A short section with two pieces. The first, from 2011, is a profile of Roy Williamson, one half of the folk duo The Corries and the writer of Flower of Scotland, a song that crowds now sing at Murrayfield and Hampden as though it had always been there.
The second, from 2017, reviews Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey, a Glasgow rapper and writer who grew up in Pollok. His book is partly memoir and partly an argument with the people who study and manage poverty from outside it. The review considers that argument on its merits, since it is aimed squarely at people who run projects in poor neighbourhoods.
2017 1 piece
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Book review: Poverty Safari by Darren McGarveyA rapper from Pollok writes about growing up poor, getting sober and the people paid to speak for places like his.
2011 1 piece
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True story of man behind The CorriesThe song is sung at Murrayfield and Hampden, and now it plays on the Commonwealth podium. The man who wrote it has been dead for more than twenty years, and he is less well known than his tune.