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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?