Martin Luther King
What would MLK say in an age of Covid-19 segregation?
Many people may soon be facing a choice between civil disobedience and Covid-19 restrictions, for which the words of America’s iconic civil-rights leader remain boldly relevant
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
