Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.
My own experience of growing up as a Roman Catholic in Scotland has led me to fear independence in Scotland. The possibility of Scotland being a kind of Stormont is a real one. I wrote a book recently about Neil Lennon's year of living dangerously and in the course of it I had to revisit some of my own experiences. Of course, most Scottish people are not swivel-eyed, loyalist sectarians but there are a large number of them. A large six-figure number, and if I were living in Scotland as a Roman Catholic I would be worried about that.
I like living in Vancouver. It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U. S. , I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy. It's a good thing.
I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.