John Swinney
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?