Allan Massie
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
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
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right.