Why I love Israel
Israel is marking 75 years of its existence in one of the most difficult peacetime periods the country has ever…
China is right to chuckle at Britain’s foreign policy
The Foreign Office has seven ministers, 16,000 employees, an £11bn credit card and one of these days it might get itself a foreign policy. If the…
Independence is no longer the SNP’s chief concern
Humza Yousaf’s government will be defined by two legacies, Nicola Sturgeon’s and his own as health secretary. The Sturgeon legacy…
The wiliest politician in the Middle East is back – but not in charge
Benjamin Netanyahu has won a staggering sixth term in office – but his alliance with the disreputable right is inching Israel close to catastrophe
Gary Lineker was always going to win against the BBC
The BBC’s decision to back down and allow Gary Lineker to return to presenting is a welcome conclusion to a…
The BBC shouldn’t have taken Gary Lineker off air
The BBC’s decision to take Gary Lineker off the air is the sort of self-harming stupidity at which the Corporation excels. The…
Qurangate has exposed the weakness of ‘liberals’
There’s a sudden vacancy in the constituency of Wakefield. The incumbent Labour MP hasn’t resigned or died. He just happens…
Why is an Israeli politician calling for a village to be ‘wiped out’?
‘I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.’…
Netanyahu is stoking a fire
Huwara is a Palestinian town in the heart of the Shomron, the mountainous northern portion of the territory Israel refers…
Labour does not deserve Luciana Berger’s forgiveness
Luciana Berger’s return to the Labour party is not only a restoration but a supreme act of forgiveness. The former…
It’s not game over yet for Kate Forbes
Kate Forbes’ campaign to succeed Nicola Sturgeon has been largely written off by political rivals and the media. Her Christian…
The real reason to be scared of Kate Forbes
Kate Forbes’s religious views remain the only thing anyone wants to talk about in the contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon.…
Can progressives handle Christian politicians?
The SNP leadership contest should not be about Kate Forbes’ religious faith but that issue has quickly come to dominate.…
Revealed: Aberdeen’s ‘curriculum decolonising’ plans
Revealed: Aberdeen’s ‘curriculum decolonising’ plans
Why is Nicola Sturgeon resigning?
Nicola Sturgeon is resigning as First Minister of Scotland. We don’t yet know when — or why. After eight years…
A modest proposal for the death penalty
Lee Anderson has changed my mind. I’ve always been an opponent of capital punishment but the Tory deputy chairman makes an irrefutable point: ‘Nobody has ever…
Women prisoners are being let down
The safety of women in prisons cannot be allowed to plummet back down the news agenda after the latest Sturgeon…
Why won’t the Palestinian ambassador condemn the Jerusalem massacre?
Husam Zomlot is head of the Palestinian mission to London and an adviser to the country’s president Mahmoud Abbas, currently…
Israel is trapped in a cycle of national self-sabotage
Jerusalem, 13 May 1998. Khairi Alkam, a 51-year-old Palestinian labourer, left home early in the morning to pray at al-Aqsa…
Why do young people fall for Holocaust conspiracies?
Millennials and Generation Z pride themselves on being ‘anti-racist’. We might, then, expect that remembering the Holocaust properly would be…
The problem with Britain’s benefits debate
A report claiming a majority of us receive more in benefits than we stump up in tax made headlines yesterday. The analysis produced by…
Is it time to replace Scotland’s sporting anthem?
‘Flower of Scotland’ is the unofficial national anthem north of the border but soon enough we may never hear its…
Scotland’s gender bill mess was made in Westminster
Nicola Sturgeon is angry. The UK government has confirmed it will block her party’s controversial gender Bill, which removes key…
Sturgeon’s gender bill poses a problem for the Tories
Ministers will come under increased pressure to block Nicola Sturgeon’s gender legislation with the publication of a new Policy Exchange paper…
Challenging anti-Semitism is a moral imperative for non-Jews
One of the functions of the honours system is to articulate our principles and priorities. Amid the cringe cronyism and…
