politics
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So, the SNP came out on top, only just. Given my day job, it’s inappropriate for me to express any opinion on the result, except that there’s no denying it’s a momentous change in Scottish politics. However, with the possibility of challenges to the result and no prospect of a coalition big enough to form
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Today’s Guardian Review includes a reasonable piece by Jennie Erdal on literary translation. It has no especially profound insights to offer on the process/art/act of translation but is more concerned with the profile of translators and translation in the world of books in the UK (woeful, but improving slightly). However, I liked the final sentence:
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It’s getting a bit close to the Scottish Parliament elections to be posting a link like this one, but a Scottish voter (or anyone, for that matter) interested in culture could do worse than look at the Scots Language Centre‘s election pages. They contain details of not only the parties’* policies on the Scots language,
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is, as Bruce said, it always gets worse.
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The Scottish Executive has finally announced a little more about the Scottish cultural academy that the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport promised us months and months ago in the Executive’s response to the Cultural Commission‘s report. There has been some muttering about the fact that the academy, which is based somewhat on the Irish
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… but I couldn’t possibly comment.
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Read this, by Eliot Weinberger, and weep. Then read this, also by Weinberger, and weep some more. Finally, read this, not by Weinberger, and smile grimly.
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The Scottish Executive has published its draft Culture (Scotland) Bill for consultation. This marks an important juncture for arts and culture policy in Scotland, but The Scotsman reports that James Boyle, the head of the Cultural Commission, which the Executive set up to draw up a vision for Scotland’s cultural policy, is not at all
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Went to a couple of events on the Festival of Politics on Thursday. The first, the Royal Society of Arts lecture on the impact of technology on society and politics, was interesting but didn’t enthrall me. The second event was billed as a discussion on Scottish culture, media and politics. Essentially, it was three journalists
Amy Jo Philip 