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?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian