Once again, identical twins The Disclaimers return to our site with their cover of The Proclaimers’ first major hit single, “Letter From America”.  The song makes parallels between the period of the Highland Clearances when many Scots were ‘emigrated’, and the later impact of the loss of Scottish engineering, and pondered whether the blood of those who had departed might return to ‘kick the life back’ to their homeland.  Perhaps in 2026 there could be an additional twist to such ponderings.  I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land…