Articles exploring social policy, culture, public life and the broader social challenges facing Scotland and the United Kingdom.
WHILE CULTURAL AND GEOPOLITICAL EXPLANATIONS are often invoked, much of the most durable pressure still sits in what used to
FANTASTICAL THINKING SEEMS TO BE ALL THE RAGE these days among those on the progressive left. Take Jason Arday, the
GEORGE ORWELL UNDERSTOOD that institutions often develop a life of their own. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the humble houseplant
IN THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, I have spoken repeatedly about the profound harms inflicted by gender ideology on women and children.
AARON SWARTZ believed the internet could set knowledge free. That may sound naïve now, after years of bot farms, algorithmic
MY BOOK, CLIMATE CHANGE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, explored the “science” of climate change and the flawed energy policy response, but
THERE ARE CONVERSATIONS modern Britain keeps trying to avoid because people are terrified of being labelled. That is, in no
THE CIRCUMSTANCES around the tragic murder of Henry Nowak should not be used to encourage the woke ideology that the
“THE SYSTEM DOESN’T WORK” is a cliché that has done something to very dimly light up about five decades of