As first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon cultivated an image of herself as a politician who took the moral high ground. That ground is looking increasingly shaky today.

MSPs have voted unanimously in favour of new powers aimed at encouraging greater use of Gaelic and Scots. The Scottish government said the Scottish Languages Bill would strengthen parents' rights to ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. The banner posted across Scots Wikipedia bears an important notice: “Followin recent revelations, Scots ...

Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day. The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, ...

Mix the Scots and sport and you’re bound to end up with trouble. Just ask William Hague, who gaffed this week that Team GB would break a leg at next month’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow – forgetting ...

Coming from a literary background, I know of a lot of writers who choose to compose their poems and stories in the Scots dialect. I say dialect because Scots in its purest form has completely died out ...

Scots are eating outside the home an average of seven times a week, with out-of-home food now accounting for around a fifth of daily calorie intake.

Inside the decidedly modern campaign to revitalize a lost language (that some say isn’t truly a language). Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English.

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