Stephen Daisley

Why did the SNP make allowances for Spain during Covid?

25 March 2024 5:06 am

The Covid Inquiry’s recent Scottish sojourn brought several weeks of bad headlines for the SNP. One revelation got less attention…

Cameron is wrong to threaten Israel with an arms embargo

23 March 2024 11:49 pm

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron is threatening to suspend arms sales to Israel. The Telegraph reports that the former prime…

The hubris of Scotland’s lofty Net Zero targets

21 March 2024 1:53 am

Scotland’s climate goals are ‘no longer credible’ and there is ‘no comprehensive strategy’ to move away from carbon to Net…

How to fix the elites

20 March 2024 5:41 am

Few things get the British quite as worked up as private schools. To the left, they are factories of inequality…

Israel’s ‘allies’ should reckon with reality

19 March 2024 4:00 am

Everyone wants an end to the fighting in Gaza. The United States backs ‘an immediate and sustained ceasefire’. The European…

The revolution has devoured AOC

7 March 2024 5:21 am

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the super-progressive congresswoman, was leaving the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn with her fiancé when she was confronted by…

Vulnerable children don’t belong in jail

6 March 2024 3:09 am

Britain’s prisons brim with vulnerable people but perhaps the most vulnerable are children. At 30 September 2023, there were 301…

Something the Tories can learn from Canada’s conservatives

29 February 2024 9:43 pm

When contemplating the scale of the Tories’ expected drubbing in the coming general election, some commentators reach for the example…

Defacing Amy Winehouse’s statue is anti-Semitic

20 February 2024 4:21 am

It’s not about Jews, it’s about Zionism. It’s not anti-Semitism, it’s pro-Palestinianism. It’s not racism, it’s social justice. These are…

Britain’s Jews aren’t safe

18 February 2024 8:07 pm

The explosion of hatred and extremism prompted by the October 7 massacre was never going to limit itself to the…

Javier Milei is no populist

8 February 2024 3:20 am

When Javier Milei visited Israel and announced that he would be moving Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem, I suppose that was terribly ‘populist’…

Nothing will change after Mike Freer stands down

1 February 2024 9:36 pm

Nothing will change in the wake of Mike Freer’s decision to stand down. That a Member of Parliament says he…

Spain and the mystery of Scotland’s Covid travel list

1 February 2024 6:00 pm

Nicola Sturgeon had a very rough time at the UK Covid-19 inquiry in Edinburgh yesterday. A sticky moment in particular…

David Cameron is in a muddle over Palestine

1 February 2024 1:46 am

The definition of madness, commonly attributed to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a…

John Fetterman’s noble support for Israel should be no surprise

28 January 2024 8:11 pm

Politicians are like bad boys: never fall in love with them, they’ll always hurt you in the end. But try…

Replacing Sunak won’t rescue the Tories

25 January 2024 4:11 am

Sir Simon Clarke’s call to replace Rishi Sunak leans heavily on Tory MPs being in denial about the scale of defeat that…

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill is a sham

18 January 2024 5:45 pm

In voting through the government’s Rwanda Bill, Conservative MPs have made a declaration: they want to reduce illegal immigration but…

Could a 1997-style wipeout spell the end of the Tories?

15 January 2024 7:51 pm

There is not a crumb of comfort for the Conservatives in the YouGov poll splashed across the front of this…

The Reform party is just another Thatcherite redux

6 January 2024 3:59 am

What exactly does the Reform party stand for? Helpfully, its leader Richard Tice gave a press conference on Wednesday at which he…

Barbara Rymell deserved dignity

8 December 2023 3:12 am

There is no getting around the death of Barbara Rymell. When I read the Telegraph’s story about this 91-year-old who died while care home staff…

The Tories are governing for Westminster obsessives

5 December 2023 4:11 am

You know the Tories are worried about their core vote when they start talking tough on the BBC licence fee.…

Alistair Darling only saved the country

1 December 2023 3:03 am

Alistair Darling was one of the most consequential politicians of the past half-century but he had the misfortune to be…

There’s no one to vote for if you want controlled immigration

24 November 2023 4:03 am

There has been much Tory huffing and puffing about the ONS revising 2022 net migration to 745,000, up from its…

Removing Hamas will not solve everything

23 November 2023 7:00 pm

Ever since Hamas invaded Israel, massacred 1,200 of its citizens and kidnapped 240 as hostages, there has been an effort…

The problem with the BBC’s Israel coverage

17 November 2023 2:18 am

Since the 7 October massacre, various institutions across the West have damaged their reputations when covering the murder of 1,200…