The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) tell us that broukit means “soiled with soot or streaked with dirt”. Nineteenth-century examples show that the term was often used to describe children.

Beauty brand Rare Beauty is using decentralized newsletter platform Substack to share behind-the-scenes insight, cultural ...

There’ll be no exodus from the increasingly controversial social media platform despite widespread concern about the ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

However, so far, all parties have been rather cagey about what their manifestos will say about schools, teachers, and young people, but there are recurring rumours about the issue of additional ...

On to the Ace 68 Turbo, which isn’t particularly big but is a 68-key gaming keyboard with Mount Tai GT HE magnetic switches.

A leading Irish Jew says the casual use of the term “Holocaust” by an Irish football pundit “trivialises the greatest ...

Don your kilts to celebrate the life of Scotland’s beloved national poet, Robert Burns, with food, music and poetry at 6 p.m.

Condemnation is a lazy response to complexity and it’s almost reflexive when we don’t understand the thing that’s causing us ...

Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited ...

A new film from Scottish producer Lesley Riddoch and Inverness-born filmmaker Gavin Hanigan is set to premier in Carnoustie before starting ...

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