NEW PODCAST EPISODE #35 — Kenny MacAskill on Jimmy Reid's 'Rat Race' speech

"A rat race is for rats! We are not rats!". Jimmy Reid speech is the feature speech for this newsletter too.

'The greatest speech since Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address' 

The above quote was the effusive New York Times' review of Scottish union leader Jimmy Reid's inaugural address as the elected rector of Glasgow University on 28th of April 1972. Reid was a labour organiser and spokesperson for the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and became a hero after saving Cl…