Scotland
Hume’s ‘Treatise’ And The Problem Of Early Success
A new biography sheds light on the afterlife of Hume’s writings
Unionists, Don’t Despair: Scotland Is Not Lost — Yet
Unionists fear that the SNP represents all Scots and that a break-up of the United Kingdom is now inevitable. They don’t and it isn’t
How Scotland Lost Its Mind
Voters north of the border are gripped by a nationalist mania. The SNP’s zealotry means I no longer feel as at home there as I once did
Civic Nationalism Or Mob Rule?
Scottish nationalism has destroyed civility north of the border, putting journalists in the firing line
Defying Duopoly: The Rise Of The Insurgents
On the doorsteps of Essex and Glasgow, the reasons why voters are turning to UKIP and the SNP appear remarkably similar
A Dream of Scottish Secession
It is September 2016. The 1707 Act of Union lies rotting in the dustbin of history.
The Isles are Full of Big Noises
The Orkney islanders have their doubts about Scottish independence
Bullying and Bluff on the Road to Referendum
In this unnecessarily long campaign, both nationalists and unionists have peddled negative and exaggerated arguments
Scottish Nationalism is Built on a Big Lie
Alex Salmond’s blend of flag-waving and leftist economics is all too similar to the ideologies that ravaged 20th-century Europe
Poll Facts
‘Don’t believe the polls. Either side could win the Scottish referendum’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts