Scotland
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
Why the Government should ban Scottish banknotes
Scottish banknotes foster the illusion that Scexit would be easy – that couldn’t be further from the truth
Meeting others to worship is a lifeline
Criminalising corporate worship is both damaging and dangerous for Scotland, says Rev. Dr William Philip
Should Boris keep out of Scotland, whatever the Covid level?
Even many Scottish Conservatives seem nervous about the prime minister’s visits north. So who else is going to save them?
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
