John Lloyd

George Floyd was no martyr

6 January 2024 6:00 pm

To write that George Floyd died is to take a position. The received belief is that he was murdered – a murder bigger, in…

The dark history of the SNP

8 July 2023 6:00 pm

The Scottish National party, under new and inferior management, continues to struggle out from under English oppression – colonialist oppression, as seems…

The real story of the Putin emigres

23 September 2022 4:00 pm

‘Russians are fleeing their country in droves’. That’s how Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, partners in life and journalism, sum…

The power of black conservatives

30 January 2022 12:23 am

Black conservatism is a particular form of conservative politics. As a movement, it’s American, with strengthening echoes in the UK,…

Should Nicola Sturgeon get a statue?

1 August 2020 9:00 am

Scotland’s statues attest to a history buried under sentimental nationalism

The Scottish literary giants who stoked the fires of Anglophobia

7 February 2020 10:00 pm

On the Scottish literary giants who stoked the fires of Anglophobia