Scotland
The war against juries
Expect bolder incursions into the presumption of innocence in the UK
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
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
