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Date from Scotland and Northern Ireland shows Remainers are rethinking their place in the UK.
Queen Elizabeth is considered by many to have been a local in Aberdeenshire.
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The Queen’s love for the Scottish highlands was well-documented. Fewer knew she could speak the language too.
The Hebridean island of Scalpay, near Harris, where around 80% of locals are Gaelic speakers.
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Scottish Gaelic psalm singing is an important part of the language and culture, but this centuries-old tradition is now becoming endangered.
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The UK could learn from the kind of action Scotland is taking on drug deaths.
Selection of BrewDog products at the Edinburgh October Elite Event.
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Scotland’s BrewDog had long championed its social and environmental values, then came accusations of a “bullying culture”. What can we learn from their case?
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The discovery shakes up what scientists thought they knew about salamander evolution.
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Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans for indyref2. An expert explains what’s changed since the last time.
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The party of government in Scotland has strayed from its ‘social democratic’ vision and desperately needs a new approach to solving inequalities across society.
1922 and all that: Ireland had a reality check after gaining independence.
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After 1922, the people that had supported independence often weren’t the ones who benefited from it.
Douglas Stuart. Photo: Clive Smith.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
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The history of a humble chapel created by Ukrainian prisoners reminds us of our duty to those refugees now fleeing Putin’s war.
High-level diplomacy: representatives of the US and UK on the UN Security Council talk with Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya.
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The question centres on whether Russia legally inherited the permanent seat formerly occupied by the Soviet Union.
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Disrupting and repositioning the traditional narratives of Shakespeare’s plays helps to challenge western notions of culture, heritage and values.
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A new study reveals how a narrative of Scottish openness to immigration encourages migrants to downplay their experiences of discrimination.
Cold-water coral reefs occur at greater depths than their tropical equivalents.
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Cold-water corals live in the Atlantic’s frigid depths – and the UK is a stronghold for them.
An underground coal face exhibition at the National Mining Museum at Newtongrange in Scotland.
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How governments can ensure phasing out oil and gas won’t do more damage.
A Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx ) in a woodland in the Czech Republic.
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A new study suggests lynxes were in Britain as recently as the 18th century.
Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are the UK’s first green party ministers.
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A green party is in government in the UK for the first time.
California wild fires, 2013.
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We need specific action now to make net zero emissions by 2050 possible.
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A recent study reveals that most Muslims believe Islamophobia is getting worse in Scotland - contradicting the country’s perception of itself as a tolerant nation.