Hadrian's wall, Culloden, the poll tax, Jacob Rees-Mogg: yes, England has inflicted an awful lot of angst and pain on Scotland down the centuries – but, look, we still don't want you to leave
1 Sorry for calling every last one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive, especially if you're a woman.
2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, butchered public services and imposed an unwonted, dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.
3 And for making you guinea pigs for Margaret Thatcher's disastrous poll tax, inflicting it on you a year before England and Wales, and then – somehow! – forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s.
4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan,...
1 Sorry for calling every last one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive, especially if you're a woman.
2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, butchered public services and imposed an unwonted, dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.
3 And for making you guinea pigs for Margaret Thatcher's disastrous poll tax, inflicting it on you a year before England and Wales, and then – somehow! – forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s.
4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan,...
- 2/20/2014
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Disney Pixar film shows a Scotland free from drug-abuse and midges – little wonder it has received government approval
It is poised to be the biggest-grossing movie about Scotland ever made, an animated fantasy starring an impetuous princess and comedy Highlanders painted blue with woad, populating a mystical fairy world of castles and soaring mountains.
Brave, a 3D animation from the Disney Pixar studios famous for Toy Story, Finding Nemo and the Incredibles, will offer a very different, more childish vision of Scotland from the heroin-ridden dystopia of Trainspotting or the militant nationalism of Braveheart.
Pixar's 13th title is its first with a female lead, and with its heroic themes focusing on a rebellious, bow-wielding girl, voiced by the Trainspotting supporting actress Kelly Macdonald, some suggest it may even be a feminist epic.
So much so that Scotland's tourism agency is mounting one of the largest marketing campaigns in the industry's...
It is poised to be the biggest-grossing movie about Scotland ever made, an animated fantasy starring an impetuous princess and comedy Highlanders painted blue with woad, populating a mystical fairy world of castles and soaring mountains.
Brave, a 3D animation from the Disney Pixar studios famous for Toy Story, Finding Nemo and the Incredibles, will offer a very different, more childish vision of Scotland from the heroin-ridden dystopia of Trainspotting or the militant nationalism of Braveheart.
Pixar's 13th title is its first with a female lead, and with its heroic themes focusing on a rebellious, bow-wielding girl, voiced by the Trainspotting supporting actress Kelly Macdonald, some suggest it may even be a feminist epic.
So much so that Scotland's tourism agency is mounting one of the largest marketing campaigns in the industry's...
- 6/3/2012
- by Severin Carrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Brave will close the 66th instalment of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, First Minister Alex Salmond announced at a conference in Perth earlier today.
Pixar’s thirteenth feature film, set in the Highlands of Scotland, will receive a glitzy European premiere at the world’s oldest continually running film festival, and further cements the sturdy relationship between Disney, Pixar and the Edinburgh film festival.
In his speech, Salmond said, “I am delighted to announce that Hollywood will roll into town during the Edinburgh International Film Festival when we host the European premiere of Brave.”
He continued, “This will present us with an immense opportunity when Scotland will be centre stage in the film with all the tourism and business opportunities this will bring. I fully expect that as the film launches across the world, so will awareness of Scotland increase.”
Brave centers on Merida, a skilled archer and princess, who...
Pixar’s thirteenth feature film, set in the Highlands of Scotland, will receive a glitzy European premiere at the world’s oldest continually running film festival, and further cements the sturdy relationship between Disney, Pixar and the Edinburgh film festival.
In his speech, Salmond said, “I am delighted to announce that Hollywood will roll into town during the Edinburgh International Film Festival when we host the European premiere of Brave.”
He continued, “This will present us with an immense opportunity when Scotland will be centre stage in the film with all the tourism and business opportunities this will bring. I fully expect that as the film launches across the world, so will awareness of Scotland increase.”
Brave centers on Merida, a skilled archer and princess, who...
- 3/13/2012
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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