Jackie Baillie
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?
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The Susie Green light
Businesses should not be legitimising the controversial CEO
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
