Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor managed global equity portfolios around the world before becoming the Chief Executive of These Islands ahead of its launch. Find him on Twitter at @staylorish
The myth of Scotland’s Covid superiority
Scottish Government advisers are using misleading data to promote Scottish exceptionalism
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
