Defence Spending
Red sky in the morning
The West woke to find itself hooked on Russian gas with degraded militaries
What is the British Army for and where is it heading?
Will higher defence spending go on tech or boots on the ground?
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
