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Alex Massie

Alex Massie

Is Britishness important enough to be worth saving?

What is Britain? This question is important, mysterious, and frequently overlooked. It seems all the more pressing at the dawn of a new…

Jan 4, 2016

Jan 4, 2016

Alex Massie

Thanksgiving is the greatest holiday; it is what Christmas is supposed to be.

Thanksgiving is the most genial holiday. I know this because the Canadians have their own version of the greatest of all American holidays…

Nov 26, 2015

Thanksgiving is the greatest holiday; it is what Christmas is supposed to be.

Nov 26, 2015

Alex Massie

Jeremy Corbyn is a disaster for Labour and a gift to the SNP.

When the French statesman Talleyrand died in 1838, his Austrian counterpart Prince Metternich is reputed to have said “I wonder what he…

Aug 3, 2015

Jeremy Corbyn is a disaster for Labour and a gift to the SNP.

Aug 3, 2015

Alex Massie

What do they know of Britain who only England (or Scotland) know?

A long, long time ago, in the fading years of the last century, I was one half of a debating team that, representing Trinity College…

Jun 29, 2015

What do they know of Britain who only England (or Scotland) know?

Jun 29, 2015

Alex Massie

When the roses come again

This is a version of a speech I made at the Selkirk Ex-Standard Bearers’ Dinner on June 8th, 2015 at the County Hotel, Selkirk.

Jun 9, 2015

When the roses come again

Jun 9, 2015

Alex Massie

Scotland unbound; Scotland divided

Were you up for Douglas Alexander? For Jim Murphy and Margaret Curran? For Danny Alexander, Charles Kennedy and Michael Moore? Big beasts…

May 9, 2015

Scotland unbound; Scotland divided

May 9, 2015

Alex Massie

The end of the beginning and the beginning of the end?

This has been a general election to surprise us. Give this, perhaps it should not be reckoned astonishing that it continues to confound…

May 2, 2015

The end of the beginning and the beginning of the end?

May 2, 2015

Alex Massie

The Queen in the North makes her play

Nicola Sturgeon, the Queen in the North, is mistress of all she surveys. She is, everyone agrees, already the biggest winner in this long…

Apr 20, 2015

The Queen in the North makes her play

Apr 20, 2015

Alex Massie

Tory! Tory! Tory! Nicola Sturgeon’s win-win election

It is the autumn of 2017 and David Cameron addresses the world’s media for the last time as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great…

Apr 6, 2015

Tory! Tory! Tory! Nicola Sturgeon’s win-win election

Apr 6, 2015

Alex Massie

Ed Miliband and the banality of mediocrity

Say this for Ed Miliband: he never misses a chance to plumb fresh depths. The Labour leader epitomises the banality of mediocrity. Each…

Mar 16, 2015

Ed Miliband and the banality of mediocrity

Mar 16, 2015

Alex Massie

Alex Massie

Freelance hack, Spectator blogger, disappointingly poor cricketer. Not writing a novel. Contact: alexmassie@gmail.com

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