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How often do we all regard alcohol as an almost indispensable component of any celebration? I plead guilty in that respect.I think that we all agree that price has a major part to play in changing the culture.
SPT changed the official name back about 10 years ago.As a previous chair of Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority, I was involved in the centenary celebrations of the subway in 1996, so I am well aware of the store of good will in the city towards the subway.
That is the sort of consensual law making for which the CSG longed.It is valuable today, just days short of our final 10-year anniversary celebrations, to recognise how the law-making process can work in line with those early hopes and aspirations.
The book festival is not a trade fair such as those in Frankfurt, London and Bologna but a public celebration of the written word. The festival is a setting where writers can meet their public, where publishers can meet their target markets and where the industry can meet informally.
That, we might argue, is a new tartan.This debate is about a celebration of Scotland, and I absolutely endorse the idea that tartan is part of our image.