I THINK it is time to strip Edinburgh of its status as Scotland’s capital.

DOGS, doags, dugs. They are great. But I’d never been able to own one, so never been able to enjoy regular dog walks, until now.

I GREW up with plenty of bad male role models when it came to attitudes towards women.

DAVID Goodwillie won’t be the only rapist playing in the SPFL. Violence against women, and indeed sexual violence, is a commonplace. I’m sure at every level in the Scottish football pyramid, men who have committed sexual assaults, pressured or coerced women into sex, maybe obtaining tokenistic consent, maybe not, will run up and down pitches taking the jeers and cheers of loyal supporters every week. The reporting rate is low, and the conviction rate lamentable.

‘Dinnae talk like that, ye’ll no get aheid in life if ye use slang.” 

WE'RE dae Scots tae English owresettin the dey tae challenge oor readin comprehension an lairn new wirds.

THERE'S hunners o braw Scots wirds an phrases tae talk aboot the weather. Here, I’ll write oot a few o them, an you can write yer ain definitions. Get yersel a vocab jotter, an note doon the wirds.

THE Scots language is the source of many of the first words we hear. Bairn. Greet. Bonnie. For many of us it is the language of those we love most, those who raised us, who taught us about the world. The tongue of couthy grannies, freenly neebors, loving parents. It’s the language of funny rhymes an sangs like Ally Bally Bee an the Three Craws.

SCOTLAND’S cultural heritage is aa o a sudden hingin by a shoogley peg. We hae tae act noo tae safeguard it. In daein so, we can save lives through this crisis.

THE skinklan lichts o the Embra Christmas Mercat were at last slockit last week, aifter a stooshie-surrondit seeven-week installment in the hairt o the capital. The mercat wis aye thrang tae the last, but it an its Embra’s Hogmanay pairtner festival baith hae tane major pelters owre the overcroodin an claims that oor capital has tint its soul in its search fir siller. Is it time, fowk speired, tae reduce tourism an turn the city back owre tae the citizens?