By J.C. | EDINBURGH
A FEW years back, your correspondent was in a pub in Oxford with two other students. One, a Scot active on the political left at the university (and a member of its doughtiest left-leaning college, Balliol), was bemoaning the lack of political choice back home in Glasgow. The Labour Party there was insipid, he complained. The Scottish Socialist Party was mired in scandal. What was the alternative? “The nats?” the other asked, raising an eyebrow. The three of us looked at each other, then burst into laughter.
