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
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics