Scottish politics
Thatcher in Scotland
Margaret Thatcher attracted loathing and respect
How Nicola Sturgeon cooked her grouse
The former First Minister of Scotland is beyond suspicion — except by her own standards
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Scottish silliness on sex
A new ruling on gender and sex is ridiculous, but not all bad news
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski