SNP
Free speech is for losers
Everyone loves free speech when their side isn’t in power
Is Scotland’s Hate Speech Bill so bad?
Even prominent SNP supporters are appalled by the proposed legislation
Why Scotland needs a new party
How the Alliance for Unity plans to defeat the SNP in the bitter battle for Britain
Silenced in Court
The ECHR thinks a country is beyond the pale if it allows its citizens to say what they like
Lady Macbeth joins the SNP
Making sense of the SNP’s internecine conflict
Just devolution doing its thing
The hate crime bill that encourages more hate
The SNP is winning. What is the plan to stop them?
Nicola Sturgeon runs rings around her Scottish opponents. But are there stronger adversaries in Whitehall?
Farewell Hybrid Parliament. Goodbye Scottish MPs?
MPs are to return to Westminster. But will Welsh, Scottish and Ulster MPs come?
Money for nothing?
A universal basic income is not as costly as it sounds – and Scotland should be encouraged to try it
The rules of secession
The rules for calling and winning referenda should be set in law
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
