Why Alba failed
Farewell, then, Alba, the little party that tried to take on the Scottish political establishment and learned, as others had…
We shouldn’t celebrate Ian Huntley’s death
Ian Huntley’s graveside will be a lonely one. Few will mourn a man who lurked in the darkest shadows of…
Kemi Badenoch has said the unsayable on multiculturalism
The higher the failings of multiculturalism pile up, the greater the effort required to ignore the fetid mound of societal…
International law should not prevent regime change in Iran
Liberal supporters of the US-Israeli killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are straining to parry the charge that Operation Epic Fury…
Labour can’t complain about sectarianism in Gorton
And with that, what was once racist is now allowed to be said. What was yesterday a conspiracy theory is…
The Greens’ Urdu ad is Zack Polanski at his worst
Progressivism is politics as fashion. The product is status and provocation the marketing strategy. The socialist, the liberal and the…
The crisis of confidence in Scotland’s Crown Office
It wouldn’t be Scottish politics if there wasn’t an abstruse scandal that requires a half-hour of background information to explain.…
The British Museum is right to change ‘Palestine’ to ‘Canaan’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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…
