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The Scotsman
19 Mar, 2018
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10 words you’ll only know if you went to school in Scotland
No matter what age you are, if you attended school in Scotland you’re guaranteed to be familiar with these Scottish slang terms.
Latest News
Tories bid to outflank SNP in post-Brexit powers row with ‘Union guarantee’

The Scottish Government will be challenged to back a ‘Union guarantee’ as part of Brexit legislation being rushed through Holyrood, in a bid by the Scottish Conservatives to outflank the SNP over devolution.
Scotland’s last cardinal Keith O’Brien dies after fall

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly the Catholic Church’s most senior cleric in Britain, has died.
Scotland ‘bridge between Europe and UK’, says SNP MP

Scotland can act as a “bridge between Europe and the UK” over Brexit, the SNP’s Europe spokesman will say today.
Bill Jamieson: Stout’s ‘scepticism’ more than justified

Some fund managers are so pessimistic you wonder how they have survived in the investment business. But that is the point about investment management. It is not about riding the waves of an incoming tide but about steering a course through stormy waters and dangerous currents.
Sport Update
No Scots nominated for Six Nations ‘Player of the Tournament’ award

Despite a third-place finish, and Stuart Hogg winning the award for the last two years running, no Scots have been shortlisted for the 2018 Six Nations Player of the Tournament award.
Mystery of Graeme Shinnie’s omission by Scotland’s Alex McLeish

Watching Scotland manager Alex McLeish couldn’t help but be impressed with Graeme
Shinnie’s contribution to a win that left everyone else at Pittodrie wondering why the former Aberdeen captain could leave the current one out of the squad to face Costa Rica and Hungary.
Andy Walker brands Celtic skipper Scott Brown ‘pathetic’

Andy Walker has called Celtic captain Scott Brown “pathetic” over his part in the incident which saw Cedric Kipre sent off at Fir Park.
And finally...
Music review: Superorganism, CCA, Glasgow

God help us if there’s a war. Unless there is a possibility of weaponising Superorganism’s happy pills. This motley collective, comprising members from the US, South Korea, Japan and the Antipodes, all live and record together in their East London HQ like some sort of psychedelic cult taking their message to the streets and stages like a tambourine-wielding, robot dancing, glitter face-painted Greek chorus.
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