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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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.