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Linda Holt

Scotland
As seen in: ThinkScotland, The Herald (Glasgow), London Review of Books, The Daily Independent (Ashland, KY), Reaction
Covers:  Education, Scottish Politics
@Think_Scotland writer, @thescotreformer managing editor

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Nicola Sturgeon: the fear-mongerer's fear-mongerer?

Nicola Sturgeon: the fear-mongerer's fear-mongerer?

A FORTNIGHT AGO, I returned from a week's visit to Amsterdam. I am not given to conspiracy theories, but when…

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Linda Holt | 'Believe' · LRB 5 September 2018

Linda Holt | 'Believe' · LRB 5 September 2018

Alex Salmond has launched a judicial review of the Scottish government's handling of sexual harassment allega…

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Linda Holt | Public libraries aren't businesses · LRB 17 December 2015

Linda Holt | Public libraries aren't businesses · LRB 17 December 2015

My parents were self-made immigrants who never completed their secondary education. Displaced by war and pove…

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English universities must learn from Scotland's disastrous Covid restrictions - Reaction

English universities must learn from Scotland's disastrous Covid restrictions - Reaction

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The green energy debate: why wind power will never be the answer

The green energy debate: why wind power will never be the answer

Wind farms only work with permanent public subsidy. Subsidy comes in various guises. The most obvious is cont…

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Linda Holt | It isn't about independence · LRB 18 September 2014

Linda Holt | It isn't about independence · LRB 18 September 2014

Polling day is suitably dreich in Fife. Since yesterday morning the damp mists of a haar have loomed over us …

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Why the “Ex-Tory” name calling is lazy and wrong

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By Linda Holt
| ThinkScotland Verified
RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE  has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform Scotland candidates were previously members of the Conservative Party. As in England, many of the party’s most prominent figures in Scotland – including its leader Malcolm Offord, MSP Graham Simpson, and councillors such as Thomas Kerr and Ross Lambie — are former Conservatives.
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Reform’s “racism”: From the SWP to the mainstream Original

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By Linda Holt
| thereformer.scot
FORTY YEARS AGO when I was at Oxford, the SWP, aka the Socialist Workers Party, were a thing. They sold The Socialist Worker on street corners, fly-posted about meetings and sought to infiltrate trade unions and social movements. They jumped on every topical left-wing bandwagon going. I read now that the British SWP during the 1980s was one of the largest revolutionary Trotskyist organisations in Western Europe. Yet at the time, even on the left, they were a bit of a joke.
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Scotland’s anti-business bias is damaging growth and public services

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By Linda Holt
| thereformer.scot
SCOTLAND – or the SNP’s version of Scotland – likes to celebrate itself as the most progressive part of the UK, if not indeed the world. It isn’t just that the Scottish people are supposedly kinder, more accepting of immigrants, more left-wing, more “right-on” – even though survey after survey proves there is little difference in the social attitudes of Scots compared to people in the rest of the UK.
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