It’s time to overthrow the lanyardocracy
The trials of Sandie Peggie are a parable of where power lies in a country when lies are power. Peggie is…
What was missing from the 7/7 commemorations
Something was scarce, if not absent, in the commemorations of the 7/7 Islamist attacks yesterday, and that is the fact…
Rachel Reeves, Winston Churchill and a short history of crying in politics
The scenes of a tearful Rachel Reeves are all anyone is likely to remember from yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions. The…
Being a Christian isn’t easy
Spare a thought for Chris Coghlan, who has learned to his horror that not only is the Pope a Catholic,…
Nigel Farage and George Galloway share a common problem
A more gracious person would refrain from saying, ‘I told you so’, but I’m not a gracious person. So, as George…
Trump is making the world a safer place
Strength works. It’s a foreign policy lesson that sounds too simple to be true and too unequivocal to be wise,…
Stephen Fry could do with a lesson in ‘radicalisation’
Stephen Fry has accused J.K. Rowling of being ‘inflammatory and contemptuous’, ‘mocking’ and adding to ‘a terribly distressing time for…
How the SNP wrecked Scottish education
A small but not insignificant morsel of data on the state of education after 18 years of the SNP running…
Why is the US so reluctant to fight Iran?
MAGA (Make America Great Again) isolationists all agree: the United States must not be drawn into the Israel-Iran war. Donald…
Israel’s Iran attack has done the West a favour
Israel’s overnight strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran represent the initial salvo of what Jerusalem is calling Operation Rising…
SNP plotters should think twice before moving against John Swinney
For those who feel Scottish politics has become a little dull of late, fear not: a rebel faction within the…
How has the media wronged Nadiya Hussain?
Nadiya Hussain’s recipes have become staples in households across the country and acquired for the TV presenter and cookery writer…
Is Reform a right-wing party?
If the problem with Labour is that it believes in nothing, the problem with Reform is that it believes in…
Scottish voters are tired of devolution
For some time now, I’ve been documenting a growing devoscepticism in Scotland, only to be assured, variously, that voters are…
Hamilton is just the beginning for Reform in Scotland
In less than 72 hours, the polls will open in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse for a Scottish by-election like no…
Is Reform trying to race-bait Scottish Labour’s leader?
Nigel Farage’s party is taking heat for a Meta ad it has run as part of the Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse by-election.…
Are there more Chagos-style surrenders to come?
Broadly speaking, there are two responses to Keir Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands. The first is indignation. This is…
This is what it means to ‘globalise the intifada’
‘Globalise the intifada,’ they chanted. This is what that looks like. Two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down as they left…
Why can’t Israel-haters accept that their Eurovision song was good?
Eurovision is an annual celebration of the gaudy and the garish – but I suppose someone should come to its…
Scotland has no idea what to do about Reform
Reform continues to rise in Scotland and the Scottish political and media class continue either to ignore it or hold…
Why I changed my mind about multiculturalism
When Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain complains about an opponent believing ‘free speech means protecting the right to offend Muslims’, you feel…
The fight against assisted dying in Scotland is not over yet
Assisted suicide has cleared its first hurdle in the Scottish parliament, but there could be many more to come. On…
Trump’s film tariffs will hurt, not help, Hollywood
Observers of the American film industry have been fretting about its prospects for almost as long as it has existed.…
The real bravery behind the India trade deal
The UK and India have finally inked a trade deal. This is, in principle, a good thing. Free trade can…
The Maggie Chapman saga is a new low for the Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament’s equalities committee has voted against removing Green MSP Maggie Chapman as deputy convenor following her attack on…
