Scots are web-savvy or self deceptive?

Some might say that Scots invented international networking along with everything else! But despite the recent proliferation of ‘Scottishness’ on the internet, are we not missing the crucial point? Networking! A Broad Scot asked Paul McCormack to look into it…

Tom Devine: The Conundrum at the Heart of the Scottish Diaspora

Scotland’s greatest export is its people. Few nations can make such a claim because Scots have always treated the world as their oyster, travelling to and settling in all corners of the globe since ‘day one’, making their mark in all fields of endeavour. Following the release of the last in his best-selling trilogy on the Scottish Diaspora, To the Ends of the Earth (pub. Allen Lane) Tom Devine gives his expert insights into this phenomenal in the article The Conundrum at the Heart of the Scottish Diaspora - exclusively for A Broad Scot – in which, among other things, he debunks as fantasy the many popular myths concerning the Highland Clearances!   Read the full article…

Bloody Scotland by oor anonymous snitch

Early December, 2012, and several people make their disparate ways through Stirling town, some walking up between the tall, black walls of Castle Brae past the old cemetery, others heading up the cobbled streets of Old Town towards the ancient gaol. A cold mist has settled about the edges of the town, and all the trees and housessparkle with rime; all is shrouded and hushed…more