William McGonagall
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird