The Internal Market Bill isn't radical enough
The more the SNP decries the Internal Market Bill, the more I warm to it. Initially, I considered it sensible…
Does Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?
Should Donald Trump be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? So far the President has notched up two nominations in a…
Israel is a true ally – it's time Boris remembered that
Boris Johnson has described himself as ‘a passionate defender of Israel’ and, what’s more, ‘a life-long friend, admirer and supporter…
How the Tories can stop the SNP's hate crime bill
Free speech concerns about the SNP’s Hate Crime Bill have been mounting for months now, so it was inevitable that…
Keir Starmer’s hypocritical attack on Tony Abbott
One of the most impressive qualities of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership so far has been his ability to land blows…
Could Scotland's hate crime bill make depictions of Mohammed illegal?
Charlie Hebdo’s decision to republish the Mohammed cartoons has the media a-fretting. Al-Jazeera called the illustrations ‘offensive’. The Daily Telegraph…
Scexit has become a matter of faith, not fact
There is a satirical flowchart that sums up Scottish nationalism better than a thousand articles. It begins with the question:…
The legal battle over how Scots define 'woman'
The law on gender is a mess and could either be about to get much clearer or messier still. The…
It's time for Boris to back Israel
Dominic Raab has visited Israel for his first trip as Foreign Secretary. By all accounts, he was made very welcome,…
Scots poll in favour of free expression
The SNP’s determination to push on with its draconian Hate Crime Bill has put it on the wrong side of…
Scotland's Hate Crime Bill would have a chilling effect on free speech
Among the encroachments on Milton’s three supreme liberties contained in Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Bill is a cloturing of the…
Have Arab nations forgotten about Palestine by accepting Israel?
The Palestinians are entering one of the most precarious periods in their nation’s history. The normalisation of relations between Israel…
The rise of Scotland's Covid nationalism
Whenever some London celebrity with a hamster’s grasp of Scottish politics simpers about moving north to escape the flaxen-fringed Franco…
The joyous Israel-UAE peace deal
There is a time for war and a time for peace, Ecclesiastes tells us. Joyously, in the middle of a…
The case for a new Act of Union
Scexit, not Brexit, will be the word that defines Boris Johnson’s premiership. The Times has a new poll from YouGov…
Can Douglas Ross stop Scexit?
Douglas Ross is the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives and since his predecessor lasted all of 167 days, best…
Why 'progressives' love to hate Rosie Duffield
There can be a hallucinatory quality to the progressive mind, a tendency to see enemies in allies and demons in…
Is Scotland changing the law on gender by stealth?
It’s not often that feminists threaten legal action over plans to increase women’s representation on public boards, so the Scottish…
Jackson Carlaw’s successor and the fight to save the Union
The Scottish Conservatives are now in crisis. Jackson Carlaw has resigned six months into his leadership and less than a…
Network Rail’s cowardly JK Rowling decision
I ❤ JK Rowling. There, now I’m a hate-monger, too. A digital advert reading just that — ‘I ❤ JK…
Olivia de Havilland’s Red Scare
Olivia de Havilland, who has died aged 104, will forever be remembered for the role of Melanie Hamilton in Gone…
Why Putin wants Scottish independence
The Russia report was supposed to prove once and for all that the Kremlin rigged the EU referendum, Boris Johnson…
The West failed to stop the Holocaust – now we're failing the Uyghurs
In 1944, Slovak rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl sent the US government a 30-page report detailing an extermination facility in Poland…
The continued existence of the United Kingdom is now at stake
When they come to write the history of the Union’s demise, there will be three guilty men. Tony Blair was…
Aussie Life
Jordan Shanks is not your average lefty. This unusual Australian YouTuber, who goes by the name of FriendlyJordies, disdains such…
