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I WAS saddened to hear of the reported assault on Councillor Thomas Kerr in a Glasgow east end bar on Armistice Sunday.

Frederick Buechner, a Presbyterian minister who never held a church pastorate but found his calling writing a prodigious quantity of novels, memoirs a

These St Andrews Day quotes can help you express your patriotism as Scotland celebrates and honours the patron saint, today November 30th.

ONE of the great problems for Prince Charles Edward Stuart before and during the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46 was that he and his father – known to Jacobites as King James VIII and III but to history as the Old Pretender – were both Roman Catholics. I have written before about how this United Kingdom is an institutionally sectarian state as decreed by the Act of Union of 1707 with its infamous Article II: “That all Papists and persons marrying Papists shall be excluded from and for ever incapable to inherit possess or enjoy the Imperial Crown of Great Britain and the Dominions thereun...

PREEN-TAIL DAY YESTERDAY was preen-tail day (tailie) – traditionally the day after April Fools’ day, or Huntegowk, in Scotland. The Dictionaries of the Scots Lanquage (DSL) defines preen-tail day as: “the day following All Fools' Day when paper tails were attached to the backs of unsuspecting persons as a joke”. The “tails” were usually inscribed with a message. What sort of message is not recorded, but presumably nothing very flattering as, indeed, is recorded in the Glasgow Bulletin of April 1954: “Tailie Day was always held after Hunt the Gowk Day. The tails carried boldl...