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Scotland used to have the best schools system in the world. Then devolution happened
Once one of the best in the world, Scotland’s education system has been steadily marching backwards for the past ten…
Spectator Letters: Independent schools provide all-round education
All-round education Sir: While much of Ross Clark’s analysis of the direction that independent education has taken is spot on…
For Theresa May, the real fight really does start now
Most people are glad to see the end of a referendum campaign, but the losing side always wants to keep…
The key to providing better aid for refugees
No blanket solution Sir: Paul Collier is right to say that the refugee crisis will not be solved with tents…
The SNP don’t speak for Scotland? Don’t be so sure…
Speaking for Scotland Sir: I wonder if it is wise of Charles Moore (Notes, 18 March) to assume — as…
Meeting Martin McGuinness: when I saw the mask slip
We keep being incited to find it heartwarming that Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley were known as the Chuckle Brothers.…
The SNP’s feat is to make non-Scots equate them with the Scottish people
The great achievement of the Scottish Nationalists is to persuade people outside the borders of their own nation — including…
Theresa May is fighting a war on two fronts - any mistakes could be fatal
Theresa May is fighting a war on two fronts, and there is no room for mistakes
Brexit makes Parliament matter again. Is it ready?
Parliament is the cockpit of the nation, but MPs have been on autopilot rather a lot in the past 40-odd…
The proof that Scotland is better off in the UK
This time two years ago, the United Kingdom stood on the brink of dissolution. The referendum on Scottish independence hung…
The SNP’s land reform fantasy world
Fantasy-driven land reform is the SNP’s way of pretending it’s still a radical party
Nicola Sturgeon’s gigantic EU bluff
The prospect of a Scottish independence vote is wildly overhyped
Labour can't learn from its mistakes. Here's why
By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…
Spectator letters: Frederick Forsyth on the EU gravy train
The EU gravy train Sir: Despite his splendid forename, your deputy editor Freddy Gray has a very tenuous grasp of human…
In fear we trust: how the Tories became addicted to negativity
Strange as it may seem, there are still people around David Cameron who regard the Scottish referendum campaign as a…
Spectator Letters: Hope for the Scottish Tories, policing charities after Kids Company
Borderline case Sir: Alex Massie (‘The painful truth for Ruth’, 9 January) correctly identifies the challenges facing the Scottish Conservatives.…
The shocking truth about the English and the Scots: they agree
Last year, the United Kingdom came within 384,000 votes of destruction. A referendum designed to crush the Scottish nationalists instead…
Letters: In defence of SNP Scotland
Scotland isn’t failing Sir: It will take more than Adam Tomkins descending from the heights of academe to persuade the…
Letters
Letters: In defence of SNP Scotland
Centralising, illiberal, catastrophic: the SNP’s one-party state
Nicola Sturgeon’s government is an illiberal, centralising disaster. Time for a revolution
What Scottish professors have to fear from Nicola Sturgeon’s power grab
What Scotland’s professors have to fear from the SNP’s latest bright idea
Max Hastings’s diary: How sporting tourists play into Nicola Sturgeon’s hands
During our annual odyssey around the Scottish Highlands, I read Tears of the Rajas, Ferdinand Mount’s eloquent indictment of imperial…
Jeremy Corbyn won’t destroy Labour. But he might yet destroy the country
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. In 2016 Britain votes narrowly to remain within the European Union, despite the…
The SNP surge at Westminster might just accidentally save the Union
There are few quicker ways to annoy an MP than to suggest that they are on holiday when the House…
What are we going to do about urban foxes?
Forget about the countryside. When is the government going to do something about the vulpine creatures wreaking havoc in central…
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