You say it best when you say nothing at all
Nicola Sturgeon’s defence is impregnable because it concedes so little usable information
Crying Wolffe
The Alex Salmond inquiry has been hobbled by legal intervention – so why can the media publish what politicians cannot discuss?
Can Salmond bring down Sturgeon?
Nicola Sturgeon can sacrifice others in order to protect herself
Sealed with a Glasgow kiss
From trans rights to its independence strategy, a bitter war divides one of the most popular parties in Europe
Vanilla flavour Labour
Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak
Another nice mess you’ve gotten me into?
David Frost’s reward is to inherit Michael Gove’s problems
Shock: there is a pregnant “person” in the Cabinet
Legislation on maternity leave is now drafted to apply to “a person” not “a woman” who is a mother
Is it Britain’s turn to invoke Article 16 this week?
Who has the better poker face for this week’s EU-UK Joint Committee meeting – Gove or Šefčovič?
Can the Northern Ireland protocol be untangled?
The Protocol is strangling Northern Ireland’s economy and damaging the DUP’s re-election chances. What will Boris Johnson do about it?
The theft of a nation
The Burma Coup: why and what next?
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
