Alex Massie
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts