Scottish Government
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
My police stalker
What do you do when you are being targeted by someone within law enforcement?
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
