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 right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
