Edinburgh
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
April: Letters to the Editor
Edinburgh University is dependent on Chinese money
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
