Stephen Daisley

The question that should be asked about the West Bank

12 February 2025 5:03 am

In all the argle-bargle over Donald Trump’s proposal for Gaza, there have been countless questions about legality, morality and feasibility.…

Trump’s ICC sanctions will test an outdated institution

8 February 2025 10:25 pm

Once you get beyond trade and maritime borders, you will find that much of international law is, pace Clausewitz, the continuation of…

How John Swinney changes his stripes

4 February 2025 5:00 pm

Turning around a government that has lost its way is one of the trickiest feats in politics, all the more…

At least Rachel Reeves is trying

30 January 2025 2:41 am

Rachel from accounts is settling up. In a speech at Siemens Healthineers near Oxford, the Chancellor signalled her commitment to…

Against the death penalty, even for Axel Rudakubana

25 January 2025 4:36 am

Should the Southport killer swing? Lee Anderson thinks so. The Reform MP posted an image of a noose on X,…

Axel Rudakubana should never have been free to kill

23 January 2025 6:29 am

Coulter’s Law, named after its originator, the right-wing polemicist Ann Coulter, holds that the longer it takes the authorities or…

Nine reasons why Trump means business this time

22 January 2025 4:54 pm

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt, every new US administration has been judged on its first hundred days, but it is in…

It’s no surprise that democracy is losing its appeal

15 January 2025 9:54 am

The Guardian reports that one in five voters under the age of 45 would prefer to do away with democracy…

Devolution is shortchanging England

5 December 2024 6:28 am

The English taxpayer is not the primary audience for the Scottish government’s annual Budget, but one wonders what they might…

The slippery slope to the return of the death penalty

30 November 2024 7:42 pm

Parliament has voted to proceed with Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, which will see the NHS offer terminally ill people…

Britain has a blasphemy law in all but name

28 November 2024 7:16 pm

Anyone outraged by Labour MP Tahir Ali calling on the government to introduce blasphemy laws has clearly not been paying…

Why Scots are less angry than the English

27 November 2024 4:48 am

The Scots have long been stereotyped as dour, miserable whingers, and we finally have proof that this is pure slander.…

The International Criminal Court must fall

23 November 2024 4:03 am

The arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant should be the last the…

Democrats don’t need their own Joe Rogan

16 November 2024 4:02 am

One of the new cliches of American politics is that progressives need their own Joe Rogan. The comedian turned podcaster…

How will progressives explain Amsterdam’s latest anti-semitic violence?

13 November 2024 3:06 am

Since the scenes of Jews being hunted, beaten and kicked as they lay on the ground pleading for mercy in…

Amsterdam shows the limits of liberalism

9 November 2024 6:43 am

Whenever Jews are killed or beaten, on 7 October or last night in Amsterdam, well-meaning sorts solemnly intone that this…

Will Democrats blame Israel for Kamala Harris’s defeat?

6 November 2024 8:10 pm

One of the few western nations where public opinion was in favour of Donald Trump returning to the White House…

My unsolicited advice to Kemi Badenoch

3 November 2024 3:30 am

If there are two things new leaders of political parties dread, it’s unsolicited advice and Scotland. The advice because, even…

Is Russell Findlay the Kemi Badenoch of Scotland?

30 October 2024 3:00 am

When Russell Findlay stood to be Scottish Conservative leader, he talked the familiar language of ‘change’. I predicted that this…

What Fight Club got right

26 October 2024 11:30 pm

There are three great makers of popular man-art working in Hollywood today – Michael Mann, Christopher Nolan and David Fincher…

Murray Foote’s departure is yet another blow to the SNP

18 October 2024 11:52 pm

The SNP just can’t catch a break. The party is still reeling from a catastrophic general election result, a backlash…

The SNP will regret expelling John Mason

17 October 2024 12:53 am

You might have missed the news that the SNP has expelled one of its MSPs, announced as it was following…

Salmond’s critics can’t ignore his lasting legacy

13 October 2024 8:30 am

When he lost his Gordon seat in the 2017 general election, Alex Salmond told his count and those watching –…

The SNP is in a donations row of its own

10 October 2024 4:36 am

The thing about being holier than thou is that you actually have to be holier. Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s leader…

What the West could learn from Israel

9 October 2024 4:00 pm

A brief update from Agence France Presse underscores the shift in power in the Middle East. The report, citing a…