Independence
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
The Catalan gridlock
Catalans are losing their identity as well as their hopes for sovereignty
Should Boris keep out of Scotland, whatever the Covid level?
Even many Scottish Conservatives seem nervous about the prime minister’s visits north. So who else is going to save them?
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
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
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
