Tha seo ceangailte ri eachdraidh ainm:An Gobaire wrote:Tha amharas agam gu bheil pàipearan-naidheachd Albannach a bhios a' cur beagan Laideann ris an sgrìobhadh gu dubh an aghaidh fìor chànan na h-Alba.
And so it is that Scotland’s oldest newspaper is re-born as Scotland’s newest. It is fitting, therefore, that we take as our motto, that of Thomas Sydserf. In his February edition in 1661, he revealed his mission statement after he was leaned on particularly heavily by members of the establishment.
Typically for a playwright, he looked to Cicero when he declared: “Ne quid false dicere audeas, ne quid veri non.”
And we here today also promise to you our readers “to assert no falsehood and to hide no truth”.