The reality of hate
The West wouldn’t know what “hate” was if it punched them in the face
Retiring the #GirlBoss
Hollywood subversion is behind the times
Love in Barbie Land
Barbie offers a healthy perspective on the relationship between the sexes
Compassion demands justice
Tragic circumstances do not excuse horrendous crimes
Yousaf to be kidding us
The SNP candidate is wrong on abortion
Euthanasia on trial
What does it mean to die with dignity?
Sturgeon’s shoddy summit
Buffer zones are at odds with basic civil liberties
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
Are you staring comfortably?
A new campaign on public transport risks policing thoughtcrimes
Watch what you say
Scotland’s blasphemy law means it’s just as well The Queen didn’t attend COP26
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation