There is not a great deal of white paper in this edition. (Alex Bell thinks it’s an all-year-round reading job.) Instead, we present an alternative grey paper about the place we’re in. The grey paper has the merit of being considerably shorter. We have other sorts of paper too – even flypaper and wallpaper.
‘The Invisible Spirit’ by Kenneth Roy – a book slightly shorter than the white paper – has just been selected as one of The Guardian’s Books of the Year, the only book by a Scottish writer to have made it. The distinguished social historian David Kynaston, whose first choice it was, wrote: ‘The Invisible Spirit: a life of post-war Scotland 1945-75, is by someone who lived through the period but is admirably unsentimental. Well-informed, highly readable, slightly prickly, often opinionated – not least about the seriously flawed Scottish establishment – this feels like something that needed to be written’.
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Last week SR’s single edition had a readership of 20,057.
