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?
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Prophetic warnings
Error is the joy of pedants, be the error serious or trivial
Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis
There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal