James Kelman should have won the Booker for A Disaffection, but his acceptance speech for the Booker in 1994 is a seminal moment in Scottish cultural/political history.
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This is a deep-dive long-form investigation into the military subculture of sexual sadism in the British army. It suggests a deep-rooted violence at the heart of the British state where these forms of ...