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
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Keir has much to fear
Keir Starmer should enjoy the election campaign because he may not enjoy the demands of power
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
45 seconds to midnight
Say what you will of nuclear war but at least, unlike this election, it’s mercifully brief
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture
Cancellation of a Brazilian artist
Dissenting opinions on transgenderism can inspire attempts to erase careers
Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis
There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
Australian insights into Britain under Labour
Anthony Albanese’s government offers a depressing glimpse of Britain’s future
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard