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Kenny MacAskill’s Followers (5)
Kenny MacAskill
Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
April 28, 1958
Genre
Influences
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The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice
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2016
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4 editions
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Glasgow 1919: The Rise of Red Clydeside
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2019
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2 editions
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Jimmy Reid: A Scottish Political Journey
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Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland's Radical History
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2020
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2 editions
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A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society
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2022
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3 editions
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iScot 100, November/December 2024
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2024
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Building A Nation: Post Devolution Nationalism in Scotland
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2004
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Scottish Parliament Official Report: Subordinate Legislation Committee Meeting
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1999
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[Building A Nation: Post Devolution Nationalism in Scotland (Viewpoints S)] [By: MacAskill, Kenny] [October, 2004]
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The Scottish Industrial Resistance
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1982
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“But politics wasn't a career for him even if he excelled in its arts. He was committed to Scotland and independence spurning overtures to join other parties.
Yet the SNP Alex recruited me into was a sorry place. Severe electoral drubbings adding to a sense of malaise across the land, with a referendum won, albeit marginally. But rigged and taken from us by Westminster duplicity. It has ever been thus.
But he had a dream of what Scotland could be. And a strategy to achieve it. Building a party which then took office, and which so nearly won the referendum.
Setting to with a will and the rest is history. Leading a team of Ministers with no past experience and with no parliamentary majority. But his vision and deft handling ensuring an administration which was recognised even by opponents as credible, capable and competent. Reaping unprecedented electoral success in 2011, something unlikely ever to be repeated.”
― iScot 100, November/December 2024
Yet the SNP Alex recruited me into was a sorry place. Severe electoral drubbings adding to a sense of malaise across the land, with a referendum won, albeit marginally. But rigged and taken from us by Westminster duplicity. It has ever been thus.
But he had a dream of what Scotland could be. And a strategy to achieve it. Building a party which then took office, and which so nearly won the referendum.
Setting to with a will and the rest is history. Leading a team of Ministers with no past experience and with no parliamentary majority. But his vision and deft handling ensuring an administration which was recognised even by opponents as credible, capable and competent. Reaping unprecedented electoral success in 2011, something unlikely ever to be repeated.”
― iScot 100, November/December 2024
“Our justice system demands that judgement be imposed but compassion be available. Or beliefs dictate that justice be served, but mercy shown. Compassion and mercy are about upholding the beliefs that we seek to live by, remaining true to our values as a people. No matter the severity of the provocation or the atrocity perpetrated.”
― The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice
― The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice
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