The foreignness scale
In a recent blog posting, Herald journalist David Leask wrote: ‘[T]here are many places […] where the concept of “foreign”
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Do Better Together deep down want an independent Scotland?
Linguists have established various rules for how people interact with each another, the so-called Gricean Maxims. These rules can be
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The positive case for the Union in 1707
When Better Together and other unionists are asked to present the positive case for the Union, they tend to struggle.
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Fisking Nate Silver
The Scotsman today published an interesting interview with the American psephologist Nate Silver. Let’s have a look at the interview
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Spreading the word
Wings over Scotland recently commissioned a Panelbase poll and today published the results for the media questions. Here’s what the
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The Three Hundred Year Night
If you read Norwegian texts from the period when Norway was ruled from Copenhagen (1397–1814), you don’t get the impression
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Is Fife a kingdom, and is Scotland a country?
Fife is a bonnie part of Scotland, but obviously when it’s called the Kingdom of Fife it’s just a way
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