Brian Cox
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Brian Cox is a prominent actor and political commentator who passionately advocates for Scottish independence and social change. This interview reveals his deep engagement with political issues and his vision for a more equitable society, highlighting his role as a thought leader in contemporary discussions about Scotland's future.
“A little bit actually. And it does work like that, unfortunately, in a sense. If you're on television, you get access. And I do try to use it. For me, it's almost because the intellectual argument's won. It's almost a case of saying to them, you know, this will also be politically popular.”
“Yeah, yeah. So we did a place called Newcastle City Hall. We got a tweet, which was from a school, and he said, can you give a shout out to this school? So we said, hello, whichever's good. And there was a scream, like a Beatles concert came back.”
“Yeah, I think so my dad was the first person to do A levels, and he went to a grammar school. Before that, as I mentioned, my granddad and grandma both works in cotton mills, and then I was the first person in my family to go to university. So you see that kind of 20th century story of leaving school at fourteen to work in the mill.”
“Well, I decided that you need a book that you could dig into often. It can't be a short book. And actually there are two famous physics textbooks. One of them is Goldstein. It's called Classical Mechanics and the other one's got Jackson. It's called Classical Electrodynamics. Anybody who's done a physics degree will know these things.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 13: Brian Cox: Succession, socialism, and Scotland
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