This pamphlet is for anyone alarmed by the present British government. It argues that the component nations of the United Kingdom can become true democracies only by declaring themselves republics. The authors are Alasdair Gray, writer of fiction and pamphlets such as Why Scots Should Rule Scotland, and Adam Tomkins, Professor of Public Law in the University of Glasgow and author of Public Law and Our Republican Constitution. Both are committed republicans.
 | Alasdair GrayAlasdair Gray is a Glasgow writer and artist, most famous for his novel Lanark (1981): ‘if a city hasn’t been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively’ remarks one of the characters, but Gray imagined and drew the city into its being in the late 20th century. His poetry has a similarly questioning, subversive tone but is also honest and painfully aware of loss. |
