Alex Massie

Alex Massie is Scotland Editor of The Spectator.

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Humza Yousaf is the hapless salesman for an SNP that no longer exists

Alex Massie - 28 Mar 2023
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Even the idiotic Margaret Ferrier can't hurt the SNP

Alex Massie - 2 Oct 2020
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Business

The shame of elite football clubs asking for a state handout

Alex Massie - 3 Apr 2020
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Trident and HS2: a tale of two £100bn projects

Alex Massie - 29 Jan 2020
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Labour's Scottish play is a tragedy in the making

Alex Massie - 23 Jan 2020
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Victory for Unionists means refusing to play Sturgeon's game at all

Alex Massie - 16 Dec 2019
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In Scotland this election will be about much more than Brexit

Alex Massie - 6 Nov 2019
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Today's Brexit arguments are nothing compared to what awaits us

Alex Massie - 22 Oct 2019
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For Rory Stewart, the road south was the only one open

Alex Massie - 4 Oct 2019
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Little could boost Boris Johnson more than a 'government of national unity'

Alex Massie - 16 Aug 2019
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The worst thing for a tub-thumper like Farage? Giving him what he wants

Alex Massie - 1 Aug 2019
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We are all the butt of Labour's joke Brexit policy

Alex Massie - 9 Jul 2019
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Stonehenge's tunnel and a battle for the soul of conservatism

Alex Massie - 19 Jun 2019
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How Change UK botched their chance to change British politics

Alex Massie - 6 Jun 2019
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Brexit

British politics is broken — and about to get a lot worse

Alex Massie - 22 May 2019
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There's one thing stopping a Lib Dem comeback

Alex Massie - 9 May 2019
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The breaking of Andrew Adonis is a revealing moment in our politics

Alex Massie - 26 Apr 2019
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Labour's defence of Assange is risible, reprehensible and revealing

Alex Massie - 12 Apr 2019
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Brexit

Brexiteers have themselves to blame for May's meeting with Corbyn

Alex Massie - 3 Apr 2019
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What Theresa May got wrong

Alex Massie - 28 Mar 2019
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Bercow, Brexit and the battle for sovereignty

Alex Massie - 19 Mar 2019
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Brexit can't go on like this. And yet it will

Alex Massie - 12 Mar 2019
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Is Glaswegian tough love the key to tackling knife crime?

Alex Massie - 6 Mar 2019
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Brexit

The Brexit mirage: lots of movement, but nothing has changed

Alex Massie - 26 Feb 2019
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No definition, no soul, no purpose - what is the point of the Independent Group?

Alex Massie - 20 Feb 2019
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Unfashionable Starbucks is a reminder that the market still works

Alex Massie - 5 Feb 2019
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From Norway to no deal: How hard Brexit went mainstream

Alex Massie - 29 Jan 2019
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Don't believe the myth that this is a nation of Little Englanders

Alex Massie - 22 Jan 2019
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MPs are playing a dangerous game of Brexit roulette

Alex Massie - 15 Jan 2019
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Oleg Gordievsky and the revealing relativism of the British left

Alex Massie - 7 Jan 2019
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Best of 2018

Best of 2018: Will no-one rid us of Jamie Oliver?

Alex Massie - 28 Dec 2018
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Best of 2018: Jeremy Corbyn and the closing of the Labour mind

Alex Massie - 27 Dec 2018
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Brexit

If you thought 2018 was trouble, just wait until 2019

Alex Massie - 21 Dec 2018
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This extraordinary week has changed nothing. It's still May's deal or no deal

Alex Massie - 14 Dec 2018
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Theresa May's Brexit zugzwang

Alex Massie - 10 Dec 2018
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Labour's Brexit policy: impregnable delusion or fathomless cynicism?

Alex Massie - 29 Nov 2018
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Not even Brexit can eclipse Scotland's independence debate

Alex Massie - 19 Nov 2018
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George'n'Dave don't have the answers. But they're asking the right questions

Alex Massie - 9 Nov 2018
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A glimpse of politics after Brexit

Alex Massie - 2 Nov 2018
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May must choose: confront the EU or pick a fight with her party

Alex Massie - 19 Oct 2018
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Theresa May's Brexit conundrum: Satisfy the DUP, the Tories or the country

Alex Massie - 12 Oct 2018
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Theresa May's best conference speech yet - but is it enough?

Alex Massie - 3 Oct 2018
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America

The Kavanaugh hearings mark a low point in a low era of American politics

Alex Massie - 28 Sep 2018
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Welcome to JezSpace, Corbyn's new media nightmare

Alex Massie - 23 Aug 2018
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Jeremy Corbyn and the moral debasement of British politics

Alex Massie - 17 Aug 2018
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Boris and the burka: a columnist with a deadline, not a sinister conspiracy

Alex Massie - 9 Aug 2018
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Vaping is virtuous. Don't tax it

Alex Massie - 2 Aug 2018
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Brexit

Pity the leader of this zombie government

Alex Massie - 19 Jul 2018
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The reckless nihilism of the hard Brexit fringe

Alex Massie - 11 Jul 2018
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Theresa May's big Chequers pitch - a Least Bad Brexit that pleases no one

Alex Massie - 6 Jul 2018
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If you're going to rebel, do it properly

Alex Massie - 21 Jun 2018
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Welcome to Dad's Army Brexit

Alex Massie - 8 Jun 2018
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Don't look back in anger

Alex Massie - 1 Jun 2018
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Ruth Davidson is right, the Tories need to let some sunshine in

Alex Massie - 23 May 2018
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Will no-one rid us of Jamie Oliver?

Alex Massie - 18 May 2018
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Welcome to stalemate Britain

Alex Massie - 4 May 2018
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Jeremy Corbyn and the closing of the Labour mind

Alex Massie - 25 Apr 2018
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Africa

The Commonwealth's search for relevance is never-ending

Alex Massie - 20 Apr 2018
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Brexit

Britain's immigration system mixes ineptitude with cruelty

Alex Massie - 13 Apr 2018
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Holding out for a hero will get centrists nowhere

Alex Massie - 4 Apr 2018
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Brexit

Theresa May's unhelpful Unionism

Alex Massie - 29 Mar 2018
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America

The seductive simplicity of blaming Trump's win on Cambridge Analytica

Alex Massie - 22 Mar 2018
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Brexit

The catch in taking back control of British fishing

Alex Massie - 8 Mar 2018
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Certainty is more poisonous than experts or elites

Alex Massie - 2 Mar 2018
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Can cricket survive in the age of disruption?

Alex Massie - 22 Feb 2018
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Corbyn may not have been a spy, but he always opposed the West

Alex Massie - 16 Feb 2018
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Brexit

Remainers are fighting a losing – and misguided – battle

Alex Massie - 9 Feb 2018
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The tragic tale of Boris Johnson

Alex Massie - 25 Jan 2018
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The Tories are the nasty party again – and May can't remove the stain

Alex Massie - 18 Jan 2018
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Nothing can undo May's reputation for incompetence

Alex Massie - 10 Jan 2018
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The Brexit debate must be more than a Game of Trolls

Alex Massie - 22 Dec 2017
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Modernise or die

Alex Massie - 13 Dec 2017
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Gordon Brown isn't wrong about everything

Alex Massie - 10 Nov 2017
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British politics today is like the 1990s - but so much worse

Alex Massie - 3 Nov 2017
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America

Trump can't handle the truth. Can you?

Alex Massie - 13 Oct 2017
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Moggmentum means Theresa May is safe - for now

Alex Massie - 7 Sep 2017
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How Jeremy Corbyn accidentally saved the Union

Alex Massie - 31 Aug 2017
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What's the point of Theresa May's government?

Alex Massie - 16 Aug 2017
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British politics has become a Beckett play - without the humour

Alex Massie - 11 Aug 2017

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Can anyone save British politics?

Alex Massie - 28 Jul 2017
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The case for the BBC

Alex Massie - 19 Jul 2017
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Is the Corbyn bubble about to burst?

Alex Massie - 7 Jul 2017
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Is Scotland sick of Sturgeon?

Alex Massie - 30 Jun 2017
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May's Government is barely in office and a long way from power

Alex Massie - 21 Jun 2017
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The British are a liberal people. Why aren't the Lib Dems more popular?

Alex Massie - 16 Jun 2017
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The Tories offered strength, but not sunshine

Alex Massie - 12 Jun 2017
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Election day is a mighty moment

Alex Massie - 8 Jun 2017
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Can the Tories knock the SNP off their perch?

Alex Massie - 2 Jun 2017
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Why police cuts weren't to blame for the Manchester attack

Alex Massie - 26 May 2017
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America

Trump is a clear and present danger

Alex Massie - 18 May 2017
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Why were so many Britons mad about Marine?

Alex Massie - 10 May 2017
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Theresa May - the Dunkirk prime minister

Alex Massie - 4 May 2017
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Scotland is about to vote on independence again

Alex Massie - 26 Apr 2017
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Why Westminster will miss Douglas Carswell

Alex Massie - 21 Apr 2017
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The magnificent elitism of Jonathan Meades

Alex Massie - 16 Apr 2017
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America

Can we trust Trump with the Tomahawks?

Alex Massie - 7 Apr 2017
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America

Trump's presidency has collided with reality

Alex Massie - 31 Mar 2017
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Who will claim Britain's centre ground?

Alex Massie - 24 Mar 2017
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A dark day at Westminster

Alex Massie - 22 Mar 2017
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Brexit

Scottish independence is now about identity, not policy

Alex Massie - 15 Mar 2017
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America

Donald Trump and the meaning of America

Alex Massie - 8 Mar 2017
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In praise of the liberal elites

Alex Massie - 28 Feb 2017
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America

Certainty has become the curse of modern politics

Alex Massie - 21 Feb 2017
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Is it time for an NHS tax?

Alex Massie - 14 Feb 2017
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Brexit

A second Scottish referendum is now an inevitability

Alex Massie - 2 Feb 2017
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America

The lost promise of the Obama presidency

Alex Massie - 12 Jan 2017
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Labour is ludicrous - but it's no laughing matter

Alex Massie - 6 Jan 2017
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America

Politicians need to stop treating us like fools

Alex Massie - 26 Dec 2016
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America

Stop moaning about 2016 - it was a year of wondrous progress

Alex Massie - 22 Dec 2016
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America

Politicians need to stop treating us like fools

Alex Massie - 4 Dec 2016
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America

Donald Trump is the new face of capitalism. God help capitalism

Alex Massie - 16 Nov 2016
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Brexit

Referendums settle one question - but raise a dozen others

Alex Massie - 17 Oct 2016
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Theresa May's Toryism has eclipsed the modernisers

Alex Massie - 6 Oct 2016
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Nicola Sturgeon comes round to Thatcher's way of thinking on wealth taxes

Alex Massie - 22 Mar 2016
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Cruz and Trump prove you can fool most of the Republicans in Iowa

Alex Massie - 2 Feb 2016
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Banning Donald Trump and Tyson Fury would be moronic

Alex Massie - 9 Dec 2015
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J.K. Rowling and her heroic attack on the wicked cybernats

Alex Massie - 19 Oct 2015
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Intolerant Corbynistas are just like the SNP's creepy cybernats

Alex Massie - 16 Sep 2015
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Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans

Alex Massie - 13 Jul 2015