Scotland
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
Keir Starmer cannot ignore us
The gender debate is not going to disappear
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
