Scotland
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
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
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules