Union Jacks and Scottish accents
Scottish social media has for a while been full of stories about how Union Jacks are replacing Saltires on Scottish
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culture
Rye bread and salt liquorice
The Tories’ Brexit dreams are getting wilder and weirder by the day, as shown by yesterday’s dramatic story in The
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The Great Scottish Bake Off
Often you hear independence switherers worrying endlessly about losing their favourite TV programmes, such as the Great British Bake Off,
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The Law of Jante and the Lad o Pairts
A term that is often used to describe Nordic culture is the so-called Law of Jante: Generally used colloquially in
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Och, Denmark! ☹
Ever since moving to Scotland from Denmark a few months after the 2001 election (which put Anders Fogh Rasmussen into
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Election posters in Scotland and Denmark
Peter Geoghegan has written a great wee article on his blog about the problem that election posters are getting banned
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Are terrorist attacks Europe’s high-school massacres?
In the light of the recent horrible events in Copenhagen, I’m starting to wonder whether terrorist attacks are becoming Europe’s
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