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Professor Christopher Harvie was born in Motherwell, Scotland on September 21 1944. His father was a schoolteacher and he grew up in the border village of St Boswells, where the family lived until 1958. Thereafter he attended the Royal high school and University of Edinburgh, graduating with first class honours in history in 1966 and being awarded his PhD for a thesis on university liberalism and democracy, 1860-1886.

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  • Oct 22 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Scotland will not thank the prime minister for his efforts to 'save' its banking system

  • Sep 5 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: With any luck, the present downturn will last long enough to wreck the economics of the conventional press and its ganglions

  • Aug 8 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Decentralised English government with new ideas, resources and institutions is a better solution than more metropolitanism

  • Jul 24 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Housing has always been an issue in the city – and the MP John Wheatley was perhaps its one true champion

  • Jun 8 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Where the supermarkets win, the high street gets taken over by charity shops, estate agents and cheapo dealers

  • Jun 1 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: The closure of the Zeebrugge-Rosyth ferry will be a serious blow to Scotland, ending the nation's sole direct sea link with Europe

  • May 7 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Britain's problem is that the fostering of technical skills has been abandoned in favour of market forces

  • Apr 13 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: The credit crash can create new options - such as unlearning a lot of what has been fashionable and disastrous

  • Mar 25 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Remembering 1968 means rather more than several ageing rockers-turned-millionaires getting knighthoods

  • Mar 16 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Born out of expediency, the union always was slightly frosty. And now it is melting away entirely

  • Mar 10 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: London is full of Munchkins, bred in government thinktanks (on the left) or in PR concerns (on the right)

  • Feb 26 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Andrew Neil is still attacking devolution: the Scottish press need to stop being so influenced and move the debate forward

  • Feb 11 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: Sadly, history can't teach lessons, but it can recreate a political landscape, show where changes occurred and what longterm effects were caused

  • Jan 28 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: The tosh-spouting, isolationist Jeremy Clarkson tendency may hate it, but the Borders will get their rail link

  • Jan 15 2008:

    Christopher Harvie: The Waverley railway in Scotland, closed by Labour in 1969, should have reopened this year. Now it's maybe 2011, and maybe never

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