Humza Yousaf
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Yousaf to be kidding us
The SNP candidate is wrong on abortion
The nightmare apparent
Has Sturgeon doomed the SNP to mediocre leadership?
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
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
