Holyrood
Watch what you say
Scotland’s blasphemy law means it’s just as well The Queen didn’t attend COP26
You say it best when you say nothing at all
Nicola Sturgeon’s defence is impregnable because it concedes so little usable information
Crying Wolffe
The Alex Salmond inquiry has been hobbled by legal intervention – so why can the media publish what politicians cannot discuss?
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
How many unionist parties does it take to fix the SNP?
With Reform UK and Alliance for Unity, five pro-union parties are lining-up to fight the SNP – and each other.
Will Scotland’s election next May go ahead as planned?
The Scottish government is working up Covid contingencies to postpone the poll or make it postal vote only
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
