Summer Food
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist