Rory Stewart’s Brexit revisionism
‘Mad’. ‘Disgusting.’ These are the words Rory Stewart, the great centrist king over the water, uses to describe Sir Keir…
How Northern Ireland could torment the next PM
Whoever wins the Conservative leadership next week, one can’t help but feel a twinge of sympathy for them. Even if…
Will Westminster ever fix the Northern Ireland protocol?
Last night’s spat between the Foreign Office and the Treasury was hardly reassuring for Unionists. If you missed it, a…
The Scottish Conservatives should not secede from Boris Johnson
Ideas, as a fictitious terrorist once said, are bulletproof. This might be stretching the truth a little, but at the…
Parliament, not judges, should decide our laws
The British commentariat has not covered itself in glory in its reaction to Dominic Raab’s proposed reforms to judicial review.…
Devolution doesn't work in a crisis
One of the worst features of devolution is the tendency of devocrats to insist on doing their own thing in…
Sinn Fein's troubling veneration of terrorists
Sinn Fein is not a normal party. It sometimes feels impolite to point it out in the era of the…
No, Boris didn't 'snub' Sturgeon
One of the reasons the SNP has dominated Scottish politics for so long is that it is extremely adept at…
Why the SNP fraud allegations matter
A common refrain from opponents of the Scottish National party is that ‘the SNP is not Scotland’. But it often…
Scrapping English votes for English laws could spell trouble
It has been almost 45 years since Tam Dalyell first asked the West Lothian Question. It is a damning indictment…
Joe Biden doesn't understand Northern Ireland
Even a pessimist could be forgiven for being surprised by Joe ‘I’m Irish’ Biden’s ham-fisted intervention in the ongoing row…
Eurovision is too important to let the SNP play politics with it
The SNP never passes up an opportunity to make the case for separatism. Now, its campaign for independence has moved away…
The problem with 'Devo-max'
A common failing of pro-Union politicians down the years has been the stubborn belief that there exists somewhere a tidy…
What Arlene Foster’s ousting means for Northern Ireland – and the Union
The brutal defenestration of Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party could have severe implications for an already…
Why a 'Unionist alliance' will never work in Scotland
When a commentator first referred to the ‘Ulsterisation’ of Scottish politics, he was jumped on by people keen to take…
The Northern Ireland Protocol is untenable
The process that delivered us the Northern Ireland Protocol already seems to have been rewritten in official memory. It suits…
Downing Street is clueless on Scottish independence
It has been pointed out before that the SNP and the Scottish Conservatives have something of a symbiotic relationship. Bitterly…
Could Holyrood ever be abolished?
Although Alex Salmond and his Alba party have understandably been getting most of the attention, the separatists aren’t the only…
Boris has a trump card in denying Sturgeon an 'illegal' referendum
Amidst all the dry economic arguments, one of the more emotive fronts on which the 2016 referendum was fought was…
Is the United Kingdom still one nation?
Is Britain a nation? If you’re trying to maintain the United Kingdom — or destroy it for that matter —…
The shine has finally come off the SNP
This week is still going to be a bad one for Nicola Sturgeon. But it seems probable that we won’t…
