Archivo etiqueta «Escocia»
Por Timothy Garton Ash, catedrático de Estudios Europeos en la Universidad de Oxford, investigador titular en la Hoover Institution de la Universidad de Stanford. Su último libro es Los hechos son subversivos: ideas y personajes para una década sin nombre. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 06/02/12):
El primer ministro británico, David Cameron, tiene posibilidades de pasar a la historia como el hombre que separó Escocia de Inglaterra e Inglaterra de Europa. Con ello tendría asegurado un hueco en los libros de texto, pero no el que le gustaría. Tanto en el caso de Escocia como en … Seguir leyendo
By David Canter, professor of Psychology at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action (THE TIMES, 26/10/09):
The problem with the key evidence in the Lockerbie case is that it ignored discoveries made by psychologists more than 100 years ago. When the Scottish police resume their inquiries into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, they will be reminded that the evidence that condemned Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi was probably based on a vague memory that somehow became convincing enough for the court to convict.
By dropping his … Seguir leyendo
By Alexander McCall Smith, the author, most recently, of Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/08/09):
This is very serious. Britain, as most readers of this newspaper know, has long been populated by three warlike tribes, the Scots, the English and the Welsh. Much of British history consists of disputes between these tribes, particularly between the Scots and the English. Since the middle of the 18th century, after Bonnie Prince Charlie made a vain attempt to reclaim the kingdom for the Scottish Stuart dynasty, an uneasy peace has prevailed, based, in part, on the understanding … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Preston (THE GUARDIAN, 17/05/09):
They were weeping as they collected their runners-up medals, strapping men wiping red eyes on their red-and-white shirts. Barcelona, on the night of the Copa del Rey, had been magical as usual, Athletic Bilbao didn’t stand a chance once. But this was an especially hard defeat, met with pure grief.
For Bilbao continue to do something that the rest of Europe – nay, the rest of the sporting world – has long since abandoned. Through 80 years in La Liga, through eight league championships and 12 cup triumphs, they’ve basically only recruited from the … Seguir leyendo
By Alex Salmond, first minister of Scotland (THE TIMES, 20/10/08):
Scotland has changed decisively in the past 18 months. As I said on the evening of the SNP’s election victory in May last year, we are a country that has moved on for good and for ever.
Part of that change is the new confidence in every part of the nation, among young and old alike. And allied to that confidence is that people no longer believe the scare stories put about by our Unionist opponents.
The Unionist argument has always been, at its very core, a dishonest and … Seguir leyendo
By Norman Dombey, professor emeritus of theoretical physics at Sussex University (THE GUARDIAN, 14/10/08):
What will be the fate of “Britain’s” nuclear deterrent if Scotland becomes independent? If the result of the Glenrothes byelection on November 6 mirrors that of Glasgow East, an answer may soon be needed. This is the biggest conundrum among a series of challenges concerning Scotland’s stance on defence if the country were to become an independent state – leaving England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EWNI) as a separate independent state.
Defence is a fundamental attribute of statehood. Yet “Britain’s” nuclear forces, which are supported … Seguir leyendo
By Ben Macyntire (THE TIMES, 13/06/08):
There is a certain sort of Englishman who, on seeing a man in a kilt, feels it incumbent on him to curl his stiff upper lip and point out that the wearing of tartan is nothing but a Victorian fad.
If that Englishman is feeling brave, he may go on to sneer that the entire system of clan tartans was invented in 1842 by a couple of fraudulent English brothers claiming to be grandsons of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
And if that Englishman is the late Hugh Trevor-Roper, a brilliant historian and champion lip-curler, he … Seguir leyendo
By Theodore Dalrymple, a retired prison doctor and author of Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (THE TIMES, 30/05/08):
It is unusual for politicians to face up to the obvious, but the Scottish Executive seems for once to have done so: it has recognised what has long stared it in the face, namely that dishing out methadone to drug addicts is not the answer to their problems or to the problems that they cause society. A different approach is needed.
Perhaps in 100 years historians will wonder why so many of the governing elite, from senior doctors … Seguir leyendo
By William Rees-Mogg (THE TIMES, 17/09/07):
After three centuries, this seems likely to be the year of Scotland’s revenge. In 1707 the last Scottish Parliament of the old order dissolved itself and Scottish sovereignty was transferred from Edinburgh to London.
In their hearts many Scots never accepted this English predominance. They rebelled in 1715 and 1745, but it was not until May of this year that they elected, with a plurality of only one seat, a Scottish government committed to Scottish independence. I admire Alex Salmond’s achievement as leader of the Scottish National Party.
In a month’s time in Lisbon, … Seguir leyendo
By Tim Hames (THE TIMES, 10/09/07):
It is not hard to be pretty dismissive of Belgium. As a country it has offered little to the wider world beyond its sickly beer and sicklier chocolate (plus Tintin, to be charitable). Now it appears to be engaged in one of its regular bouts of fratricidal introspection. Never mind “name five famous Belgians”, discovering five of them who like each other seems to be a challenge. As The Times reported on Saturday, there has been no proper national government there for three months and it is being seriously asked whether the place should … Seguir leyendo
By Ewan Crawford, private secretary to John Swinney, the former leader of the SNP, from 2001 to 2004 (THE GUARDIAN, 15/08/07):
It was supposed to bring constitutional chaos and the destruction of the United Kingdom as we know it – but as the Scottish National party government nears its 100th day in office, it’s been consensus, not chaos, that has characterised Alex Salmond’s premiership north of the border. Even yesterday’s launch of the SNP’s white paper on independence has provoked at least some measure of agreement between Scotland’s parties – something unthinkable just a few months ago. All now … Seguir leyendo
By Magnus Linklater (THE TIMES, 15/08/07):
There is a very good reason why Gordon Brown will hesitate, and may finally balk, at calling a snap election. It’s the state of his own backyard.
The divided politics of Britain could not be more dramatically revealed than by the latest opinion poll in Scotland. It suggests that Labour is now 16 points behind the Scottish National Party; the single percentage point that separated them at the election in May has been swamped by a psephological tsunami; it renders almost meaningless the recent UK polls that give Labour a 12-point lead over the … Seguir leyendo
By Sean Connery, an Scottish actor and producer (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/05/07):
This is a historic week for Scotland. The country’s new first minister met Queen Elizabeth — Queen of England and Queen of Scots — at Holyrood Palace on Thursday. This was the first time Her Majesty has met the leader of a Scottish government who is committed to Scotland rejoining the community of nations as an equal and independent partner.
The meeting was also the culmination of a month of firsts for Scotland. On May 3, the Scottish National Party (SNP) — a democratic party, committed to … Seguir leyendo
Por Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez, profesor de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad de Deusto (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 11/05/07):
Cuando se analiza el conflicto vasco en clave comparada, es habitual tomar el caso de Irlanda del Norte como referencia principal. Sin embargo, el caso norirlandés está más alejado de nuestra realidad política que otras situaciones conflictivas. Lo que sin duda distorsiona el análisis comparativo es el hecho de que tanto en Euskadi como en Irlanda del Norte concurra el elemento de la violencia. Pero más allá de tan desgraciada coincidencia, son muchas las diferencias en la comparación política de ambos … Seguir leyendo
Por Henry Kamen, historiador. Acaba de publicar The Disinherited: The Exiles who Created Spanish Culture, Londres, Allen Lane (EL MUNDO, 09/05/07):
Para alguien que ha sido, como yo, militante y, durante una época, concejal del Partido Laborista británico, el resultado de las elecciones locales y autonómicas que se celebraron la semana pasada en Gran Bretaña no deja de ser una píldora muy amarga. No ha sido el desastre que muchos vaticinaban, pero, sin duda, pueden verse como las elecciones más significativas de todo el recorrido del actual Gobierno.
Y haciendo un análisis más global, cabe destacar que al … Seguir leyendo