Scottish Parliament
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
The nightmare apparent
Has Sturgeon doomed the SNP to mediocre leadership?
Sturgeon’s hubris was her downfall
History will not be kind to her time as leader
Sturgeon walks into the sunset
The overwhelming figure of Scottish politics is human after all
Sturgeon turns her back on women
Women will not forgive her but we will fight on
Banning prayer is beyond the Scottish Government’s powers
Holyrood has vastly exceeded its remit
A very seditious scarf
Nicola Sturgeon’s culture of intolerance
The Scottish Tavistock
Politicians must address how young people are being treated at Sandyford gender clinic
The moral poverty of the “Period Poverty Act”
Politicians should do better — period
Cancelling Christians
Billy Graham wouldn’t be welcomed into Britain today
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
