by Michael Rosie

Recent media coverage of Loyalist and Irish Republican parades in Glasgow has again raised the spectre of ‘sectarianism’ in Scotland. Various commentators have offered deceptively simple, and entirely predictable, solutions: ‘ban parades’, ‘abolish denominational schools’. These are deceptive because they misunderstand and mischaracterise the supposed underlying problem.

Michael Rosie is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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