Pat Kane writes; “Certainly, we need a Scotland that can talk confidently and clearly in the world language, English, about its priorities and its offerings – cosmopolitan, metropolitan, academic and managerial. We also need a Scotland that increasingly values the way it currently talks to itself, its accents and vocabulary. The rise in Scots-language activism and literature may, in some quarters, dream of forging a Catalan-style national language. But in the meantime, it’s enough that we’re loosening our police action on the presence of Scots words, phrases and syntax in mainstream life..”