Free children’s book celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee criticised as too ‘Anglocentric’ by Welsh and Scottish governments
Last October, we wrote about the UK government’s plan to create a new children’s book in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, which would be given away free to… Read more »
Thief jailed for stealing over £80,000 worth of library books
Imagine being a PhD student at Napier University in Scotland, casually frequenting your campus library to borrow a textbook for your studies. But the shelf is empty—not one of the… Read more »
More for them — Amazon is totally unconcerned with paying its Scottish employees a living wage
What’s the trade-off for selling your soul and working for the evil Amazon empire? Why, a salary below the living wage of course! At least if you work in Scotland.… Read more »
Planning a vacation? After you check out of that Paris hotel that delivers books via room service, head over to Wigtown, Scotland, where you can stay in an apartment above The… Read more »
Brexit is nigh as the UK divides — unbeknownst to a certain mangled apricot hellbeast…
It has happened—Britain is facing a Brexit situation, with 51.9% of the population voting to leave the European Union. So was happens next? The future is widely uncertain. Before the… Read more »
Poem in support of British union up for sale
As Scotland prepares to vote on a referendum on breaking off from the United Kingdom to become an independent country, a poem that champions the case for union between England… Read more »
J.K. Rowling is not going to make a list of “favorite Scottish books” anytime soon
From Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hugh MacDiarmid, the list of names associated with Scottish literature is littered with some of the… Read more »
The grand tradition of starving Scottish authors
Shocking news this week from Scotland: writing may not, in all cases, be a wildly lucrative vocation. David Robinson reports for The Scotsman on a recent speech author James Kelman… Read more »