Glasgow
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Burrell 2.0
The Burrell Collection’s second chance to capture the hearts of Glasgow
Watch what you say
Scotland’s blasphemy law means it’s just as well The Queen didn’t attend COP26
Murders for early November
As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A police school for scandal
Is it any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness?
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall