#Scotland

The Great Scottish trading ports - Berwick, an important Scottish trading port This map shows the location of Berwick, Scotland's most important royal burgh and trading port before 1300. Situated
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1 of 7: Four months ago if you had said to me that there is a "conspiracy theory" stating that this "pandemic" is a "Con"and all part of a "bigger
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It is great to have some thoughtful coverage of #ZeroCovid on the BBC, including quotes from @devisridhar and @dgurdasani1 - thank you @NickTriggleUnfortunately the article contains a series of misunderstandings
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1. Short thread on getting a Scottish international affairs think tank off the ground: Scottish Global Forum (SGF) generated huge interest in 2012 when we launched, here + overseas. But
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Not only this this guy a complete racist - he is simply wrong about this, and dangerously wrong.There are a lot of people ‘born and bred’ in this country who
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We'll all have seen lots in the news recently about Free School Meals while schools are closed across the UK. We're delighted to see nearly every local authority in Scotland
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Note to @NicolaSturgeon Yes you are good at subterfuge. You grandstand on this Covid. You never miss a chance to appear on any show, head bobbing, hands moving. You are
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Nice to see English politicians suddenly panicking about the Union after spending four years actively putting it in jeopardy. What did they think was going to happen? One if the
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New letter from ministers to the Lords on Internal Market Bill. Looks like attempt at olive branch on devolution. Gives Scottish, Welsh and NI govts right to be consulted. But
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Let's be clear:Xenophobic blood & soil rhetoric is disgusting and degrading to be exposed to as a migrant. I've felt it, I loathe it. Yet it pales in comparison to
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1. #GME has a problem recognising its exclusion of POC. Parents and teachers who are ethnic nationalists &/or who are native speakers of Gaelic don't want to acknowledge this. They
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Oliver O'Donovan once said 'to see yourself as a people is a work of moral imagination'. True of most 'bodies' we belong to. If my party SNP is where we
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>£100m a year in EU structural funds, directed through @scotgov, is going. Being replaced by Shared Prosperity Fund - details unclear, until yesterday, when @SteveBarclay wrote to @KateForbesMSP, saying it
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Racists sicken me. All of us – and our government – must make it clear that Scotland is no place for them. Immigrants and refugees should be welcomed in Scotland.
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As SNP set out 11 point plan to indyref, a few comments on route to independence in EU - drawing on in-depth research interviews across many EU member states.There is
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Edwin Muir, Scottish Journey (1935), Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, 1979, p. 2-4..A century ago there was a great clearance from the Highlands which still rouses the anger of the people
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