Scottish Conservatives
How to nix the nats
Governments should stop indulging the SNP
Winning by inches or losing by miles?
The Scottish Conservatives self-congratulation is delusional. They have not stopped the SNP.
How many unionist parties does it take to fix the SNP?
With Reform UK and Alliance for Unity, five pro-union parties are lining-up to fight the SNP – and each other.
The Scottish Conservatives – what is the plan?
Douglas Ross is proving a better critic of Boris Johnson than of Nicola Sturgeon
So long, Jackson Carlaw
The Scottish Tories prove they are ruthless, after all. What are the conspirators’ plotting?
Hail Carlaw!
Is the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives the man to save the UK?
Is Scottish Conservatism heading south?
Graham Stewart on why a lot of ‘Cons Holds’ are actually too close to call
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
