BIOS Reporter – Volume 23, No.1 – January 1999

1999 will be an important year in the political life of the United Kingdom, for it will mark the establishment of devolved power to Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The distinctive characters of these parts of the United Kingdom will be given some opportunity to express themselves. This seems to be an appropriate cue to reconsider our attitudes to so-called provincial organs, or, as Stemhold & Hopkins so quaintly described them, ‘country organs’…