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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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war