Allan Massie
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress