What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The right to be gender critical
An Employment Tribunal has again upheld the protected nature of gender critical beliefs
A bill must be a scalpel
The new “Conversion Therapy Bill” must be precise and accurate
On protecting characteristics
The facts about gender, schools and law
Why Mermaids lost
There is no right to avoid criticism
Ministers must grasp the nettle on equality law
It needs greater clarity on sex and gender
The never-ending question
Jonathan Gullis may still be in the middle of his parliamentary question
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
