Economy
Alf Young
I’m trying to give something back, but now they’ve slashed the funding
Life of George
A shelter in Shotts
Faith
Alison Prince
The nature of our belief
Brief Lives
John Joseph Benson
Person of the Week
Sir Thomas Urquhart
Profile by Barbara Millar
Pic of the day
Islay McLeod
The Scots have always been an unhappy people; their history is a varying record of heroism, treachery, persistent bloodshed, perpetual feuds and long-winded and sanguine arguments.
Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Scottish Journey
There is an incurable nosiness in the national character.
Cliff Hanley (1922-1999), The Scots
We take a pleasure, a malicious pleasure, I am afraid, in pricking bubbles; and, though we are very sentimental ourselves, we like to pour cold water on other people’s sentiment.
John Buchan (1875-1940), Some Scottish characteristics
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834), Essays of Elia
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
P G Wodehouse (1881-1975), Wodehouse at Work
In Scotland, everybody represses you, if you but propose to step out of the beaten track.
James Mill (1773-1836), James Mill: A Biography
Scotland is indefinable; it has no unity except on a map. Two languages, many dialects, innumerable forms of piety, and countless local patriotisms and prejudices, part us among ourselves more widely than the extreme east and west of that great continent of America.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), In the Valley: The Scot Abroad
‘A small family in the congregation of Europe’
Moray McLaren, The Scots
Why the police began taping
Norman Fenton’s short history of verballing
An ethical emptiness
Alex Wood on the downfall of Tommy Sheridan
A new civic direction?
Andrew Guest on the built environment
Should we legalise?
James Wilkie responds to Douglas Marr’s recent article on drugs
Anyone for tea?
Leonard Quart on the far-right in America
Comment is free?
Christopher Harvie on the altered mind of a journalistic institution
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