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Sir Bill Cash has achieved his political life’s ambition of restoring British sovereignty – did he ever think it would happen and is it ‘case closed’?

The ability to predict musical developments far in advance suggests different expressions of a single underlying logic of tonality

The Bee Gees have always been a target for mockery, but by force of talent and ambition, they managed to define the age around them

What about the past should and could be mapped, and how to do so, are vexed issues in cartographic studies

Script writers attempt to spice up “Covid briefings” with the Brazilian variant

The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque

It’s Instagram that is turning everyone and everywhere the same, not the UN, not NAFTA, not the IMF, and certainly not the EU

Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby

The Story of Scottish Art is not a scholarly work of art history; it gives an easy-to-read account of artists’ lives with a faintly awestruck tone