Investment Zones
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Make architecture art again
Attractive architecture should draw from the past while looking to the future
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity