Who’s to blame for Scottish drug deaths?
Scotland is the drug deaths capital of Europe and changing that is going to take something radical. The Scottish government…
Humza Yousaf’s leadership isn’t dead yet
If you just ignore the opinion polls, Humza Yousaf’s first 100 days as First Minister have been an unqualified disaster.…
The French Connection and the trouble with streaming censorship
We are ten minutes into William Friedkin’s The French Connection and we’ve just seen our two heroes beat the shit out of…
Emmanuel Macron should sink more pints
Civilisation’s last line of defence runs through the Élysée Palace. Emmanuel Macron has been lambasted by his opponents for necking…
Is this Wickes’s Gerald Ratner moment?
Big businesses are increasingly torn between activist leadership and a customer base that just wants to stump up its cash…
What good will locking up Carla Foster do?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a 44-year-old woman, Carla Foster, unlawfully aborted her unborn baby. She procured the necessary drugs from…
Will Scots forgive the SNP and Sturgeon for the party’s legal troubles?
Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest by police investigating the SNP’s finances would seem to be a gift to her opponents and those…
Tucker Carlson and the danger of antisemitism
Tucker Carlson is many things but stupid is not one of them. So when he describes Ukraine’s Jewish president (‘a…
How Pride lost itself
I was in my fondly forgotten twenties when I made it to 53 Christopher Street, site of the 1969 Stonewall…
Millennials have no reason to vote Conservative
For some time now, critics of the Tories’ strategy of soaking millennials to buy votes from boomers have been pointing…
The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra
It’s the worst thing to happen to Cleopatra since that snake in the mausoleum. Queen Cleopatra is the second season…
Conservatives are blaming civil servants for their own failings
Conservatives are once again doing what they do best: whining. By ‘conservatives’, I don’t mean conservatives in any meaningful sense,…
Nat Con won’t save conservatives
Nat Con is the talk of Twitter, a dubious accomplishment for any movement seeking popular relevance. Progressives are having a…
The inconvenient Palestinians
His name was Abdullah Abu Jaba and I want you to remember it because it’s the last time you’ll hear…
The problem with prison
The former prime minister Sir John Major has suggested the UK need not be banging up quite so many people.…
What the BBC gets wrong about Israel
If you get your news on the Middle East from the BBC, every so often Israel appears to go mad…
How the gender debate shaped the new face of moralism
Disruptions of feminist meetings by trans rights activists have become commonplace in recent years. Tactics include pressuring venues, blocking entrances,…
The Guardian’s shameful double standards
The Guardian thinks of itself as Britain’s fearless liberal conscience, trigger-sensitive to racist ‘dog whistles’ in the language and editorial…
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…
