Michelle Ballantyne
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.
The Scottish Conservatives – what is the plan?
Douglas Ross is proving a better critic of Boris Johnson than of Nicola Sturgeon
Hail Carlaw!
Is the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives the man to save the UK?
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Irish women are being stripped of constitutional rights
Article 41.2 makes maternity leave a woman’s right, not an obligation, so why do so-called “progressives” want to get rid of it?
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
