Scottish Nationalists
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Sectioning the SNP
Separatism is a grave threat to all Britons
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?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening