How radical is Scotland?

According to their boosters, prediction markets such as Polymarket or Kalshi are ‘global truth machines’; their detractors say they’re just a glorified form of gambling. Either way, they’re zero-sum games with, as Geoff Mann put it recently in the LRB, ‘few winners and many loser ...  Show more

Tom McCarthy, writing in the LRB, described James Joyce's Ulysses as a ‘heavy book, a book full of weight, a fallen book’; a ‘properly obscene book’; ‘a book in which the central stake is the coming into being of the book itself’; a book for which ‘people should desist, once and ...  Show more

With the Scottish parliament election less than a week away, Jack Blanchard looks back at the history of the Scottish nationalist movement and explains how it shifted from a fringe pursuit to perhaps the majority view in Scotland. Former First Ministers Alex Salmond and Jack McCo ...  Show more

⚡️ "The British Comedy Challenge" starts Monday, 9th Nov: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/challenges/the-british-comedy-challenge--Scotland has had a long and complicated relationship with its southern neighbour. But will it ever break free? In this episode, we explore the key ar ...  Show more

Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon is under pressure following the row over her gender reforms and a drop in the polls.

But is she in serious trouble, or will the dominant force in Scottish politics continue to confound her critics?

Matt hears from f ...