Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Sturgeon’s hubris was her downfall
History will not be kind to her time as leader
Expensive booze pushes Scots towards drugs
Sturgeon’s alcohol policy is her latest failure
Lights out for Sturgeon
The powers she wants will guarantee darkness across Scotland
Union flags alone are not enough
Even vexed vexillologists know fighting separatism needs more than three colours
Just devolution doing its thing
The hate crime bill that encourages more hate
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
