It’s Salmond vs Sturgeon – and whoever wins, the SNP loses
Amid the wreckage of a Brexit process that has disrupted every aspect of British political life, it is easy to…
This is Ukip’s Britain. The rest of us just live in it
The continuing saga of Henry Bolton’s notional leadership of Ukip continues to amaze and amuse and appal in equal measure.…
Hands off our Ruth
At last, there is light in the north. The long Scottish Tory winter has finally ended, giving way to the…
Ruth, Queen of Scots
Twenty years ago, Conservatism all but died in Scotland. Tony Blair’s landslide victory made Scotland, at least in terms of…
Back into battle
On 24 June last year, in the Georgian splendour of her official residence in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square, Scotland’s First Minister…
Highland sting
There is no party in Britain quite as fake as the Scottish National Party. The SNP, now entrenched in its…
Referendum rage
Scots know all too well how it feels. The rest of Britain is about to learn
The painful truth for Ruth
Scots love their Tory leader. But they won’t vote for her
Sport’s first celebrity: W.G. Grace
Should you wish to have a good copy of the 1916 edition of Wisden, cricket’s annual bible, you should be…
Fun runs
At long last, the England cricket team have rediscovered their love of the game
The oldest sport in the world
This is the best book you’ll ever read about mixed martial arts fighting; and this will still be the case…
The disunited kingdom
This was the Scottish election. Where next for the Union now?
Scotland’s new national faith
The great SNP revival, and why it’s impervious to reason
Divided we fall
A landslide for the SNP will inevitably lead to the end of the Union
Scotland’s unwon cause
The successful launch of a nationalist newspaper shows just how much trouble the Union is still in
A vote for real politics
Whatever the outcome of the referendum, Scotland will be better for having had the debate
Nearly there, Darling
The success of the campaign to save the Union can be heard in the increasingly hysterical tone of independence supporters
Union in peril
Alex Salmond is on course to win. Why hasn’t England noticed?
Sri Lanka: High tea in the Hill Country
Alex Massie relaxes amid lush lawns and eccentricity
Union man
Can George Galloway keep Scotland in Britain?
Why must we worry about London’s success?
For a long time my view of the Imperial Capital — as, like other Scots, I am still prone to…
