Scotland
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
The fall and fall of Scottish Labour
Anas Sarwar can only seem to compound the failures of the party in Scotland
Is Reform committed to the Union?
Nigel Farage should take the United Kingdom more seriously
For the love of guga
An attempt to ban guga hunting is metropolitan colonialism
Scotland is veering towards abortion extremism
Sex-selective abortion is barbaric, not progressive
Reform is winning over Scotland
A recent local election result was bad news for the political class
A nostalgic Scottish Christmas
Comfort and Joy is a feel-good film in dark times
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane