These Islands
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?
Identity politics in these islands
A new forum sets out to save the UK – but time is ticking
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
