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KICKSTART A NEW SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
BY SIR TOM HUNTERSee the full content of this document
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Big Ideas for 2006 Part Two : Nationhood
ENTREPENEUR
'SCOTLAND leads the world!" It's the headline all Scots want to see. The question is how do we deliver it? In truth, in an enormous way we already have. The Scottish Enlightenment, by the very admission of an American scholar, delivered what we know to be the modern world - no mean achievement. Now we as Scots need to grapple with how, a few centuries on, we can again deliver that type of global leadership. Subject, of course, to the detraction of the usual soothsayers who would rather we confine ourselves to mediocrity. A mediocrity, by the way, they support only to cloak their central role in its foundation.Well, here is my view. People power is our only asset in the game of global...See the full content of this document
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