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Diary

Bruce Anderson’s diary: If you want to understand the SNP, it helps to be an ex-Trot

Plus: a case for a posthumous VC, and the return of the Cross of St George

3 January 2015

9:00 AM

3 January 2015

9:00 AM

An embarrassing confession: in the late 1960s, I was a Trotskyite. But that period of political adolescence has its uses. It made me aware of the methods employed by extremist parties such as the Scots Nats. Trots wanted to encourage ‘the workers’ to make impossible demands, including ludicrously high wage rates, in order to bring down capitalism.

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