Stephen Daisley

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…

Britain should just join the United States

4 October 2024 3:00 pm

Ruth Cadbury is hard at work campaigning for Kamala Harris ahead of November’s presidential election. It’s what you might expect…

Iran launches a missile attack on Israel

2 October 2024 4:24 am

Iranian missiles are slicing through the evening sky over Tel Aviv as Tehran responds to the killing of Hezbollah leader…

This is Israel’s greatest victory since the Six-Day War

29 September 2024 12:23 am

There is a satirical Israeli song from the Second Lebanon War, ‘Yalla Ya Nasrallah’, with the chorus: ‘Come on, oh…

Israel goes for Hezbollah’s leadership

28 September 2024 7:07 am

Israel has carried out a daring air strike against Hezbollah’s headquarters. The Islamist terror group’s underground command centre, located below…

You reap what you sow, Sir Keir

27 September 2024 3:00 pm

The public response to Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers accepting gifts from Labour donors and others has been what…

Why is Labour so puritanical?

25 September 2024 12:48 am

Can you be a progressive without being po-faced? I wonder sometimes, especially when I read that public health minister Andrew…

Is Scottish Labour really back?

24 September 2024 4:39 pm

Labour’s first conference from government in 14 years might not be taking place against an ideal backdrop, with the Prime…

No, Rich Lowry didn’t say the N-word

21 September 2024 6:51 pm

Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review, is being cancelled for calling Haitian immigrants the N-word. One problem: he didn’t. Lowry…

Now we know how Keir Starmer will fall

18 September 2024 4:12 am

After coasting his way to No. 10, Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership has got off to a pretty cursed start. Some…

The real significance of the winter fuel row

11 September 2024 5:02 am

The question of whether to scrap winter fuel payments to all but the poorest retirees is a very British debate,…

The Greens are turning on the SNP

9 September 2024 6:48 am

The SNP hasn’t wanted for its woes lately but now there is fresh trouble on the way. Lorna Slater, co-leader…

This could be the first right-wing Scottish Tory leader in years

2 September 2024 1:58 am

The Scottish Conservative leadership election is now Russell Findlay’s to lose. The West Scotland MSP has secured three big endorsements:…

Why are people so shocked that Starmer isn’t perfect?

31 August 2024 2:59 am

The 1997 Christmas special of The Mrs Merton Show probably doesn’t feature in many people’s formative political memories, but it…

The Scottish Conservatives leadership race is surprisingly interesting

25 August 2024 3:25 am

Something interesting is happening in the Scottish Conservative leadership election, and while I appreciate you might be sceptical about the…

Will Russell Findlay be a ‘fighter’?

20 August 2024 4:21 am

Russell Findlay has launched his bid to be the next Scottish Tory leader as the party descends into a civil…

Are Scottish nationalists having delusions of grandeur?

16 August 2024 3:27 am

The Scottish nationalists are aggrieved. What’s new, I hear you ask. Well, a diplomatic row, one which has prompted some…

The oldest hatred is thriving in Britain

10 August 2024 2:12 am

Britain’s antisemitism problem continues to grow. A report from the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that monitors racist attacks…