Author: thomas

Holyrood SNP 

Predicting May 2016

14/10/2015 thomas 12 Comments

As one of the few people who actually predicted the SNP could win 56 Westminster seats six months before it

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Scots language 

Norwegian language lessons for Scots

02/10/201503/10/2015 thomas 8 Comments

(Reblogged from my personal blog.) Norway is in some regards at least 150 years ahead of Scotland: Until the mid-19th

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post-No SNP Yes campaign 

Where was the SNP?

19/09/2015 thomas 9 Comments

I’m just back from the Hope over Fear rally in Glasgow that was held to commemorate the independence referendum. It

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Yes campaign 

Still dreaming

18/09/2015 thomas 1 Comment

My subconscious mind must have been busy dealing with the anniversary of the independence referendum: Last night I dreamt that

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alternativestoindependence devo-max Westminster 

Home rule if we let the dream die

17/09/2015 thomas 1 Comment

Alun Evans, the former director of the Scotland Office, has used the upcoming anniversary of the referendum to issue a

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open source social media 

My thoughts are my own — how to break up social network monopolies

03/09/2015 thomas 5 Comments

A few hours ago I came home from a meeting at Maklab entitled Blether about open source, Scotland and Paul

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featured gaelic Scots language 

Did universal bilingualism give Scots an advantage in the past?

02/09/201514/03/2017 thomas 21 Comments

There’s more and more evidence that being bilingual makes you smarter and keeps your brain functioning for longer. Here’s a

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