Songs
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
