#Scots

Key quotes from businessman letter to Herald:“I have never encountered anti-Scottish resentment south of the Border (indeed the number of Scots in top positions in my industry rather suggests the
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Boris Johnson is coming to Scotland today to try and salvage some sort of support for the union. It would be a shame if someone was to ruin his visit
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Joanna Cherry:"Alex Salmond secured a concession that nothing in Scotland Act would preclude the people of Scotland from subsequently choosing an independent future. This is recorded in Hansard during second
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To those saying BBC’s decision not to air ScotGov briefings doesn’t matter because folk can watch online that REALLY isn’t the point. Surely, you can see that when you’re fighting
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Throwback to 2013, when I had an XBOX and upset a bunch of Scottish alcoholics. When I was a Thatcherite, but voting for the Lib Dems in the 2015 election.
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As a very pro-EU Scot who is broadly in favour of democracy, here are my Arguments against a second referendum; without using the phrase 'once in a generation' The downside
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Sometimes I wonder about the Swedish reluctance to use dialects when writing; some Westrobothnian writers do use dialectal words, especially in dialogues, but rather than using their dialect as a
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@RoundTableBI can you tell me if this organisation using the name ‘The Round Table’ is part of your organisation? If not, it would seem a misleading attempt at passing off.
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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/The SNP versus the LawThe SNP is in trouble. They know it and we know it. It’s almost certain that Nicola Sturgeon will need to resign for lying to HolyroodThis
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In Scotland, as in many other countries, the outbreak of the French Revolution seemed to announce the dawn of a new age. News of the French Revolution was greeted with
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Important proposals contained in White Paper on UK Internal Market – fundamental for entire future economic and democratic governance of UK: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9
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Been watching the unedifying pile-on @Lenniesaurus. Happily defended by @neilhimself and @JaneyGodley. Especially claims we all ought to speak ‘proper English’. Ghastly. I honestly thought this horrible idea (that some
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Scots finance secretary @KateForbesMSP: ““Despite discussions today, @hmtreasury continue to deny our request that full furlough at 80% be available in Scotland at any point we need it, suggesting that
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Just a quick thread on the "Scotland can't afford to go it alone" drivel that we're seeing for the umpteenth time >> We heard the same re Ireland. The Brits
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#otd 21st August 1689, the Jacobite Army commences their assault on Dunkeld and the Earl of Angus’ Regiment of Foot (also known as the Cameronians). 1,200 Presbyterian soldiers fight with
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