SNP
Scotland is ready for Reform
The conditions are right for Nigel Farage and friends to shake up Scottish politics
The National Library of Scotland is a national embarrassment
Dissent is marginalised amid establishment sycophancy
Nicola Sturgeon’s feminist fairy tale
For all the rhetoric, she made life worse for Scottish women
How Nicola Sturgeon cooked her grouse
The former First Minister of Scotland is beyond suspicion — except by her own standards
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
The problem with the Celtic Fringe
Devolution has proved to be a disastrous mistake
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
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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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
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
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
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.
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers