Scotland
The EHRC delivers
Women’s rights campaigners have been vindicated… for now
Diversity north of Dundee
A Highlands culture war
Expensive booze pushes Scots towards drugs
Sturgeon’s alcohol policy is her latest failure
The dram team
Glenturret is a single malt of rare quality and maturity and with the hue of polished mahogany
Sturgeon on the hook
Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill promises a difficult year ahead for the woman who self-identifies as “feminist to my fingertips”
Making sense of the SNP
Anglo-Scottish relations from a historical perspective
Is my t-shirt a hate crime?
Yesterday we glimpsed what Scotland’s new hate-free utopia might look like
Total dummies
Reinforcing messages about what makes a “real” boy or girl has no place in schools
“Reframe your trauma”
Rape survivors are not “bigots” for wanting female-only spaces
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
