Scottish Nationalists
Is the Union breaking up?
Nationalist parties have a vested interest in falling short of independence
Farewell Hybrid Parliament. Goodbye Scottish MPs?
MPs are to return to Westminster. But will Welsh, Scottish and Ulster MPs come?
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs