Michael Scott
Commissioned into the Scots Guards, Michael Scott commanded a battalion at the battle of Tumbledown Mountain in the Falklands War, a brigade in Northern Ireland and the Army in Scotland before ending his career as the Military Secretary. He then spent nine years dealing with complaints against barristers. He now writes books, his latest, The Lady of Kabul, was published in December 2019. He is also the author of In Love and War, Scapegoats and Royal Betrayal.
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year