It’s not for nothing that the twentieth century is known in ‘Britain’ as the ‘Conservative century’. And make no mistake, if we remain in this dying union much longer, then before we know it, the Conservative twenty-first century will be well underway. No-one does British statecraft like the Tories, as the Liberal Democrats will discover first-hand.

Mike Small writes: A few weeks ago we published a piece about the dispute between Spinwatch and Forth magazine. This is about an article by ‘Will Deighton’ or someone using that name. Since then we’ve had a flurry of emails threatening all kinds of things including legal action. We don’t owe anybody any apology and [...]