Tall Tales and Tackety Boots

Voice from Europe

Alyn Smith is one of Scotland’s six Members of the European Parliament. He is a member of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Dinwoodie Interview

NOW that the SNP’s Westminster leader, Ian Blackford

Hoping for the best but prepare for the worst

It is now less than one hundred days until the United

The time is now and here’s why

Welcome to 2019, and the fortieth anniversary year

The Auld Alliance is alive and well…

“The trouble with the French is they don’t have a word

Eye, That Time Again!

Januar or biennial eye examination. Residents of Scotland

Cold Comfort

So it’s January. Many of us will be making our first

The McNeill’s of Holm

“We lived in an eerie borderland between the seen and the unseen worlds” F.M. McNeill

A History of the Scots Language

Billy Kay is the author of Scots The Mither Tongue and over the next few months, he will tell the story of the Scots language from its ancient origins to the present day.

The Nippy Sweetie Cryptic Crossword

8. Sums you abandoned to send mobile sentences (1,1

When the Outlaw King was in Forfar…

When Outlaw King was released on Netflix last year

“Westminster has just ended the Union”

As we enter a New Year, many of us will have made New

Nusawele remembered

The recognised young voice came out of the pitch darkness

First or Last? Rural Broadbandin Scotland

Fast broadband connections are increasingly important

A Guid New Year, Tae One and All

Wel, 2018 was full of surprises for sure. We started

I say Indy - incidently

I speak Catalan, although I read and write it far better than I speak it. Both my Catalan courses were marked by bigger events. The first course in Born, Barcelona was marred by my then Catalan partner’s hunger strike for Independence and subsequent involuntary detention in a psychiatric unit for two months. That hunger strike was censored by mainstream media although David Pratt and Kathleen Nutt (The Herald) and RAC1 (Barcelona) and some alternative media gave it some mention. The second was marred by the October 1 referendum and subsequent events. Damn those independistas! Both those events actually immersed me in Catalan.

Stories from Marquis, a home trade vessel

The home trade vessel were built with flat-bottoms

Stories from the pit

My father came ashore in the early 1950s, having spent

Saltires Of The Night

I don’t realy know how it feels to be hungry - I’ve

Talking Tech

Many people experience some difficulty reading. Even

Wee Ginger Dug The Union Myth

2018 was the year that the British government destroyed

Coalescence

Scotland’s musical place in the world, according to one of its leading composers

Theme for the Early Days of a Better Nation

As an Englishman who moved to Scotland in 1998 I must

The Bridge at Siebenhauswrn

Highland Light Infantry. The words conjure up lithe

Letters & Pics

Got a picture with a special memory for you? It might

iScot Book Review

Alex J. Craig reviews Whiskies Galore by Ian Buxton and Whiskypedia by Charles MacLean

MajorBloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom or there’ll be a confidence vote

Personal Astrologer to the Labour Party

As noted last month, ‘Inspecting the entrails’ is a

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