John McTernan
What Labour owes to Scotland
Can Keir Starmer succeed without the land of Keir Hardie?
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes