Heroes and zeroes
THE clearest indication that we are going through the Scottish Counter Enlightenment is the absence of one of the Enlightenment’s big ideas: common sense. This seems particularly glaring among delivery drivers. For the third time this year, a driver from a well-known supermarket’s home-delivery service has turned down a muddy track and, with dogged determination, carried on into the ulu, ignoring the branches scratching the sides of his van, the underneath being sandpapered by the hay crop
