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. He tweets at @alainmas
Vive Le Roi!
French Royalist groups wait for a king, but is their cause surely lost?
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
