I want to thank Glasgow Caledonian for co-hosting this event.  This is a fantastic, forward-looking university – and we are very grateful for your support today as we are to the Lee Valley...

The historian Linda Colley has devoted much of her career to thinking about national identity, and British national identity in particular. One of her previous books, "Britons: Forging the Nation...

Scotland would prosper from independence if it became more self-confident and resisted complacent self-congratulation

Talk to spokesmen from Number 10 and they are unequivocal—there is no housing bubble. Not in London, not in the south east, not in Britain over all, none. All talk of a bubble overlooks the fact,...

Clegg’s “tooth and nail” fight, Rouhani ups his diplomatic charm and McCain's rejoinder to Putin

How to sink Scotland—keep the pound

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The vote could be closer than you think

Should Scotland break away from the rest of the UK? As Andrew Marr makes clear, the decision turns in the end on feelings about nationhood, not economics, and the result could be closer than the...

Estracts from memoirs and diaries