Flight Over The Border

Abstract

I am going to Aberdeen. So what’s on in Aberdeen? ‘Not the central heating’ is the stock music hall answer. My own answer will be a warmer one. My travels through the kingdom in the middle months of 1982 had shown an island mainly in economic recession and decline. I went now to Aberdeen to see the coastal gateway to the oil rigs of the North Sea whence came such new prosperity that the tax revenues to the government paid the bill for half of the United Kingdom’s three million unemployed.