Jamie Blackett
Gaming Holyrood
Will unionists or nationalists succeed in beating the Scottish system?
How many unionist parties does it take to fix the SNP?
With Reform UK and Alliance for Unity, five pro-union parties are lining-up to fight the SNP – and each other.
Friendly fire
Can Unionists better game Scotland’s two vote electoral system than the Nats?
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal