Keir Starmer has just made his first misstep as Prime Minister
In dodging calls from his party to remove the two-child cap, Sir Keir Starmer is making one of his first…
Israel hits back at Houthi drone attack
Operation Long Arm, the code name for Israel’s counter-terror strikes in Yemen, sends a message almost as forceful as the…
Europe should prepare for president Vance
Foreign policy will have been low on Donald Trump’s list of considerations when deciding to anoint JD Vance as his…
The National is a paper in need of help
Since its launch in Scotland in 2014, the National newspaper has made a name for itself for several reasons, none…
What explains Trump’s silence?
As the Democrats go into a very public meltdown about Joe Biden’s fitness to be their presidential candidate in November,…
Labour’s disturbing devotion to devolution
One of the defining themes of the new government will be devolution. Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner’s plan, according…
Meet Labour’s elite Scottish MPs
Scottish Labour has won 37 of the 57 seats north of the border, an increase of 36 on the 2019…
The election result could kill Scottish independence for a generation
The exit poll puts the SNP on ten seats. That is very much at the low end of the spectrum…
Nigel Farage is not the future
Nigel Farage is the most misunderstood politician in Britain. Vilified by the liberal media as ‘far right’ and mistaken by…
Kemi Badenoch shouldn’t stoop to David Tennant’s level
David Tennant’s acceptance speech at the British LGBT Awards was replete with all the telltale signs of ‘Celebrity Activist Syndrome’.…
How we should deal with Just Stop Oil
One need not cast around for signs that Britain is no longer a serious country, but the indulgence with which…
The incoherence of Labour’s Palestine stance
The Labour manifesto commits the party to recognising a Palestinian state. It frames this as ‘a contribution to a renewed…
The Scottish Tories won’t accept Faragism
Douglas Ross was not a game-changing leader of the Scottish Conservatives in the way Ruth Davidson was but he announces…
Sunak is out of touch, and always has been
Rishi Sunak says it was a ‘mistake’ to leave the 80th anniversary commemorations for D-Day early. That’s one way to…
Why is Douglas Ross standing for parliament again?
Not content with being a referee and leader of the Tories in Scotland, Douglas Ross seems bent on making himself…
Farage’s milkshake attack and the perils of progressivism
Much worse than the fact of a banana milkshake being chucked over Nigel Farage is the inevitable discourse it has…
Starmer will win the election, but Sunak won the debate
Full disclosure: I went into the ITV election debate wanting and expecting Sir Keir Starmer to walk all over Rishi…
The taxman has failed Britain’s poor
Today we are witnessing a significant failure of the UK state. This morning, the personal finance campaigner Martin Lewis reported…
Which seats are the Scottish Tories targeting in the election?
The Scottish Conservatives were facing a difficult election this summer but SNP leader John Swinney may have thrown them a…
John Swinney is making a mess of the SNP’s election campaign
Humza Yousaf lasted just over 400 days as SNP leader. Will his replacement John Swinney get that far? The question…
Stop children from suffering when their parents go to jail
Writing about the impact on children of having a parent in prison, you always hit the same brick wall: no…
How Israel should fight back against the ICC’s lawfare
The application for arrest warrants against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant is an act of…
Roz Adams’s tribunal win is a victory for liberty
As the edifice of gender identity ideology continues to crumble, along comes another example of an institution not only captured…
Why are Scottish nationalists so thin-skinned?
Scottish nationalists are not happy. What’s new, I hear you ask. Did they lose another leader? Has Sainsbury’s been selling…
Swinney-Forbes should get the basics right
John Swinney, Scotland’s new first minister, has appointed his inaugural cabinet – and it’s almost unaltered from the team headed by Humza Yousaf.…
