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Article: John MacLeod; Political life of Brian will be hard to follow.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2004
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Byline: JOHN MACLEOD
WHEN I first laid eyes on Brian Wilson, it was a soggy May morning in 1983, on the high street in Stornoway.
I was but a raw youth. He, by contrast, was a highly experienced - if as yet unelected - politician.
Na've as I was, I already knew much about him. Brought up in Dunoon, he had been briefly a Scottish Nationalist. By the early 1970s he was a fire-breathing radical socialist, determined to to rouse the Gaelic proletariat. To this end, in 1972 Wilson and a few chums started a very Leftwing - and at times very irresponsible - newspaper on the Isle of Skye.
The West Highland Free Press has not only survived, but ...