Is the National Trust losing the nation’s trust?
If the National Trust is tired of promoting “heritage” what can be done to remind it of its purpose?
Lend me your votes
Why is Stuart Andrew able to cast 203 votes in each Commons division?
Was test and trace doomed to fail?
If nothing else, Dido Harding has outperformed her European counterparts
The Conservative party’s autumn of discontent
It is a bad sign when Tory MPs say they will vote for their government with “a heavy heart”
Sir Graham Brady – “A lot of people are near the end of their tether”
1922 Chairman warns that Tory MPs may vote for a November lockdown, but not a December renewal
Northerly winds of change
Graham Stewart visits Orkney and the Shetlands to find the islanders keen on independence — from Scotland
Mind your language – even in your own home
Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill criminalises insulting language – even if nobody heard it outside your own living room
A “no deal” Brexit is not an “Australian deal” Brexit
The Withdrawal Agreement seriously constrains a sovereign UK’s room for manoeuvre
Should all England be a Greater Manchester?
Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.
No deal Brexit? What about the deal that is already signed?
The government’s commitment to the Withdrawal Agreement compromises a clean break Brexit
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
