Edinburgh
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
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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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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
