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Three first-rate books on maps
What about the past should and could be mapped, and how to do so, are vexed issues in cartographic studies
Surely the final series
Script writers attempt to spice up “Covid briefings” with the Brazilian variant
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque
Instagram vs. Brexit reality
It’s Instagram that is turning everyone and everywhere the same, not the UN, not NAFTA, not the IMF, and certainly not the EU
Why Damien Hirst is the perfect artist for the pandemic
Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby
The story of Scottish art
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
Should MPs read?
If our representatives aren’t reading these weighty documents, then who is?
Steve Baker: Boris’s leadership “on the table” without lockdown exit plan
Distance between Downing Street and Tory lockdown sceptics widening as Baker writes to CRG MPs
All at sea
Is the new Northern Ireland Protocol working?