Scotland
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
Don’t legalise assisted suicide
British politicians have turned down assisted suicide legislation several times before. They must do so again
The Road and the fork-tongue rogues
Minoo Dinshaw fills in the gaps in an official guide to Scottish history
Banking party poopers
When we set up the Reclaim Party, we met every type of establishment obstacle
How the Hate Crime Bill defies Scottish tradition
With a stroke of the legislative pen, Holyrood has made Scotland the most stringent regulator of speech in the UK
An island for asylum
Is the Home Office serious about sending asylum seekers to a British island?
Blood on the tracks
Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck
A judicial defence of religious liberty is long overdue
Christians should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
