Stephen Daisley

The British Museum is right to change ‘Palestine’ to ‘Canaan’

17 February 2026 5:30 am

What’s in a name? Quite a bit if you’re the British Museum and the P-word is involved: ‘Palestine’. Pro-Palestinian activists are outraged…

The genius of Japan’s ambassador to Britain

15 February 2026 5:00 pm

I don’t know if ‘gaun yersel, yer excellency’ translates into Japanese but the salutation is on the lips of many…

Britain has an antisemitism problem

12 February 2026 4:30 pm

Want to know what kind of country you live in? You live in a country in which there are more…

What Farage fails to understand about working from home

11 February 2026 3:23 am

Of all the ways in which Reform is upending the rules of British politics, the most fascinating is its reliance…

It is Anas Sarwar who must now resign

10 February 2026 5:54 am

There is a 1953 Warner Bros short, Zipping Along, in which Wile E. Coyote, frustrated with the failure of his…

The lanyard class is not ready for Reform in Scotland

9 February 2026 1:27 am

The most reliable sign that Reform is doing well in Scotland is the refusal of the lanyard class to engage…

Why Labour should stand by Starmer

6 February 2026 2:46 am

Labour MPs want shot of Keir Starmer over the Peter Mandelson scandal. There is nothing new in that sentence until…

Why are men still in women’s prisons?

4 February 2026 2:32 am

The women are at it again. For Women Scotland (FWS), specifically. They’re the pressure group who took on the Scottish…

Democrats must ignore the witterings of Billie Eilish

3 February 2026 4:40 am

Awarded Song of the Year at Sunday night’s Grammys, ‘Wildflower’ singer Billie Eilish forwent the customary shout-outs to manager, agent…

The SNP is deluded about the 7 May elections

29 January 2026 12:29 am

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

22 January 2026 1:17 am

Tensions between the United States and Europe have prompted a rethink about defence spending among European elites. The postwar paradigm…

Malcolm Offord must improve

18 January 2026 3:16 am

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

14 January 2026 5:00 pm

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?

13 January 2026 5:24 pm

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

10 January 2026 6:07 am

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

8 January 2026 3:31 am

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

6 January 2026 10:27 pm

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

5 January 2026 9:39 pm

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

29 December 2025 11:47 pm

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

24 December 2025 10:25 pm

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

24 December 2025 4:57 am

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

22 December 2025 4:00 pm

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?

17 December 2025 10:26 pm

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?

15 December 2025 5:12 pm

This one has everything: drag queens, swastikas, X and freedom of speech. Dr Anne Woodhouse is a clinical psychologist in…

Scotland is getting sicker

9 December 2025 2:37 am

Scotland’s NHS is in crisis and Scotland’s government is in denial. A new study by the former head of the Royal College…