Independence for Scotland Party
Friendly fire
Can Unionists better game Scotland’s two vote electoral system than the Nats?
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
