Scottish Government
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
