Voters should reflect carefully on what is at stake and the values we choose to elevate – whether compassion or division – will ...

Scottish elections use what is called the d’Hondt system, which mixes together first-past-the-post and proportional ...

Brian Cox has built a reputation for being blunt and honest, and not everyone might like his takes. The veteran Scottish performer has never been shy about sharing his opinions, even the ones that ...

The 'Succession' star added a couple more in his latest interview, where Margot Robbie was criticized as "too beautiful”: "F**k it! I’m gonna say what I want to say." By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large ...

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Electric All Whites forward on FIFA World Cup and FIFA Series targets, career-best form and a love of Scottish slang. Elijah Just admits that his example might not hold water if it involves Kevin De ...

The Scottish Parliament election will take place on Thursday 7 May. Polling stations will open at 07:00 and close at 22:00. A total of 129 MSPs will be elected to the parliament, often referred to as ...

The Scottish Premiership has been one of Europe's most intriguing leagues this season and what promises to be a thrilling run-in will be played out once the division splits in two. Hearts, Rangers and ...

Language has a shelf life. Slang especially. What sounds effortlessly cool in one decade sounds like a Halloween costume in the next, and few eras produced more dateable vocabulary than the 1980s.

I started using my teens' slang to better understand them. Words like "rizz," "mid," and "slay" entered my vocabulary. Sometimes it connects us — sometimes they cringe. I remember how mystified the ...

The United States is a vast and diverse nation with a huge assortment of languages and dialects. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that in a country with at least 350 languages, you find a great deal of ...