Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.

At this point, it's a little bit of a runaway train.

It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it.

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

Every day one reads meretricious babble about 'globalization' and the abolition of frontiers, most of it amounting to little more than celebration of the worldwide availability of Wheel of Fortune.

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.