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Academic calls on Dumfries and Galloway to do more to cash in on Robert Burns links
Dumfries and Galloway currently generates £21 million a year from its connection to the Bard - but Professor Gerard Carruthers reckons that could easily be doubled
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GREENOCK Burns Club will be forced to break with annual tradition tonight by toasting the bard online with a virtual celebration. The Mother Club, formed in 1801, will mark Robert Burns birthday by screening the event on YouTube, in keeping with Covid restrictions. This will be the historic club s 219th Burns night and officials have put together a package of poetry, music and song which people can enjoy with a dram in the comfort of their own homes. President Christine Currie said: Obviously it would be much nicer to have a hundreds of people, having a great time and chatting to one another, making new friends and catching up with old ones.
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Scholar Nathalie Duclos who has researched the movement for Scottish independence and the 2014 referendum notes the governing Scottish National Party (SNP) has advanced a conception of Scotland as a social democratic society while emphasizing Scottish citizenship “based on residency rather than ancestry.”
Many Scots are now pushing for a second independence referendum, which some hope will allow the country to embark on a new partnership with Europe and the wider world. The SNP argues that progressivism provides a logic for independent nationhood.
This year, as COVID-19 hinders get-togethers and forces adaptations, could Burns be just the figure to supply both Scotland and the world with a symbol of Scotland’s progressivism, adaptability and inclusivity?