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The future, including economic prosperity, will belong to those countries that have harboured and nurtured this resource says, Brian McGeachan in his latest piece for Scotland Speaks. FLESH and blood voters now fall into demographics. Cold categories reflecting, I suppose, the findings of people who place human beings on charts. One demographic, once dominant numerically, and politically, now appears to have dropped off the chart. That segment of society was once called the working-class.

2021 marks half a century since he stepped onto that platform, and declared a work-in at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. Jimmy strategised a radical concept to combat the axing of the industry on the Clyde. His rectorial address at Glasgow University, the following year, on the theme of alienation was a clarion call for humanism. In this book Jimmy reveals how that tour de force made its way into the New York Times. 'WALKING with History' is an apposite title for a book on Jimmy Reid.