Hamza Yousaf
Off the Wales
The Conservatives are struggling to find any way to make themselves look good
The canary in the coal mine
The UK is at a dangerous junction when it comes to free speech
Mind your language – even in your own home
Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill criminalises insulting language – even if nobody heard it outside your own living room
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Southport and the inescapability of politics
There is nothing essentially wrong with talking about immigration
Why we should give votes to kids
It would stop their interests from being neglected
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity