Scotland
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
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
Most Read
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté