Stoned & Dethroned: You Have Been Watching…Stonemouth
The driving idea behind Scots Whay Hae! has always been to celebrate the best of Scottish culture and art, which means that by definition we usually don’t write about the failures. There are people paid to do that, and life is too short to do it otherwise. However, I feel that the recent BBC adaptation of Iain Banks’ 2012 novel Stonemouth cannot be allowed to pass without comment as the great man deserves better than this. The story revolves around Stewart Gilmour and his ret