The SNP is deluded about the 7 May elections
You’re the SNP. You’ve been in government in Scotland for 19 years on the trot. You have nothing to show…
Europe must give Trump what he wants
Tensions between the United States and Europe have prompted a rethink about defence spending among European elites. The postwar paradigm…
Malcolm Offord must improve
The biggest beneficiary of Robert Jenrick’s defenestration and defection was neither Kemi Badenoch nor Nigel Farage but Malcolm Offord. He…
Welcome to buffer-zone Britain
Are ‘buffer zones’ becoming the latest weapon in the political establishment’s clampdown on dissent? Scottish First Minister John Swinney says…
Why can’t a Jewish MP visit his local school?
Ruth Wisse defines anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as ‘the organisation of politics against the Jews’, and in Britain it is striking just…
The Emiratis are right to keep their kids out of Britain
If you don’t want your kids joining the jihad, don’t send them to a British university. That is the view…
The SNP is up to its old referendum tricks
There will not be another referendum on Scottish independence if the SNP wins a majority in May’s devolved elections. We…
Britain can still escape Starmer’s dreadful Chagos deal
The government’s latest difficulties in the House of Lords over plans to surrender the Chagos islands is another humiliation for…
Trump is winning the Maduro meme war
The Vietnam war was the first Americans watched on their nightly TV news, the Gulf War the first that could…
The British state radicalised me
The liberal state and its journalistic and academic outriders fret constantly about the radicalising influence of under-regulated social media, but…
How to stop the next massacre of British Jews
No one remembers the ones they catch in time. Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein will quickly be forgotten and so…
Starmer has nothing going for him
Why would anyone support this government? Keir Starmer has a near-invincible majority, a divided opposition and 14 years of Tory-managed…
America is increasingly worried about free speech in the UK
Of the many political headaches Keir Starmer does not need right now, further American warnings that Britain is suppressing speech…
Why is the Scottish government so afraid of a grooming gangs inquiry?
The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of allowing government ministers to mislead it. That is the effect of a…
Why was this innocent doctor ever investigated for her ‘anti-trans’ posts?
This one has everything: drag queens, swastikas, X and freedom of speech. Dr Anne Woodhouse is a clinical psychologist in…
Scotland is getting sicker
Scotland’s NHS is in crisis and Scotland’s government is in denial. A new study by the former head of the Royal College…
Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog
The Irish are in many ways the ideal neighbours. They’re quiet, industrious, peaceful, send their best talents to London, and…
Yes, John Swinney is a head of government
This week Catherine Connolly, the newly elected President of Ireland, welcomed John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland, to the Áras…
Make Gordon McKee a minister
With his viral video explaining debt-to-GDP ratio through the medium of biscuits, Gordon McKee is putting the ‘nom’ into economics.…
The global cottage industry gaming America’s culture wars
It is the 9/11 of the blue ticks, the Hindenburg of the grifters, the dotcom bubble of the slop-peddlers. The…
Northern Ireland’s Christian RE crackdown should trouble us all
Schools in Northern Ireland which teach pupils that Christianity is true are breaking the law. That is the ruling of…
Helen Webberley is terrifying
Ben Leo’s interview with Helen Webberley is a chilling dramatisation of what happens when ideology meets reality – and ideology…
The return of migration centrism
None of Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms is as radical as the terms in which she is talking about this issue.…
Scotland does not need an LGBTQIA+ festival
Around this time of year TV schedules groan under a blizzard of feel-good festive movies, all of which share essentially…
How a right-wing putsch felled the infallible BBC
By now you’ll know all about the crisis at the BBC, especially if you watch or read or listen to…
