Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ – Hugh MacDiarmid ( ‘Dìreadh I’)
‘Nothing but heather!’ ̶ How marvellously descriptive! And incomplete!
Categories: Culture
Hugh MacDiarmid was one of the founders of the Scottish National Party but was subsequently kicked out because of his Marxist views.
He stood for election in 1964 as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain which speaks volume for his political judgement.
He also supported a invasion of Britain by the Nazis in order to topple the counties establishment.
Communism / Nation Socialism….. not much different, but both considered plausible by this odious little man