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The way we fucking speak in Scotland

05/05/201906/05/2019 thomas 0 Comments

Scottish public discourse has probably always been more direct (and yes, using more swear words) than its English counterpart. It

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

10/11/201310/11/2013 thomas 1 Comment

The Economist’s special report this week is about “the big decisions ahead for Britain”, which is trying to conflate the

14/07/201314/07/2013 thomas 6 Comments

There was an interesting wee exchange of opinions on Twitter today: Susan Stewart (ex-director of communications for Yes Scotland): Step

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