Carnivorism
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Nicola Sturgeon and the WhatsApp Group of Secrets
Stern but lovable Scot, Professor Sturgeon, would tell us the whole truth…wouldn’t she?
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition