Allan Massie
Allan Massie CBE FRSL FRSE is a Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and now lives in Selkirk.
Vive Le Roi!
French Royalist groups wait for a king, but is their cause surely lost?
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating