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Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
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English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
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Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous