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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture