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
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
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
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)