Westminster can’t escape blame for the Murrell scandal
Per Sir Humphrey Appleby: ‘A basic rule of government is never look into anything you don’t have to and never…
Henry Nowak and the problem with ‘anti-racism’
To determine the proper response to the murder of Henry Nowak we must first dismiss those courses of action that…
A Blair revival is the only hope for Britain
Everyone else is thinking it, so I’m just going to say it: we need Tony Blair back in Downing Street.…
How was poor Nicola to know about her husband’s embezzling?
Peter Murrell’s £400,000 spending spree is the biggest, and certainly the most entertaining, political scandal to hit Scotland in years.…
Does Andy Burnham know what a woman is?
Can Andy Burnham define ‘a woman’? The correct answer is ‘an adult human female’, though I would also accept ‘someone…
Scotland’s parliament is in thrall to transgender activists
Mind your language if you want to speak in the Scottish Parliament. Newly elected presiding officer Kenny Gibson has told…
Will Labour ever admit that Scottish devolution was a mistake?
If you believe as I do that political stupidity deserves to be punished, you might take satisfaction from the election…
Malcolm Offord and the heresy of achievement
A telling exchange from Tuesday night’s televised debate for the Scottish Parliament elections. Malcolm Offord, businessman and Tory peer turned…
London’s Jews are under attack
Over the weekend, an incendiary device was allegedly thrown through a window at Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow. Smoke from…
Has the For Women Scotland judgement made any difference?
Here is a lesson in power. One year ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in For Women…
Why young people like the Scottish Greens
The Scottish Greens’ manifesto for Holyrood 2026 proposes the most far-reaching overhaul of the economy north of the border. I’ve…
How the Pope should retaliate against Donald Trump
Imagine that Martin Luther had scrawled his 95 Theses on the back of a Denny’s menu and nailed it to…
Why are the Greens using the local elections to attack Israel?
In putting an attack on Israel front and centre of his party’s local election launch, you would think Zack Polanski…
There’s no denying the Scottish Greens’ ascendance
A cardinal error in politics is hating your opponents so much you cannot understand them. If you know no one…
Reform is right to put its foot down over reparations
Liberals don’t realise it yet, and perhaps they never will, but Reform has just done them a massive favour. Nigel…
Israel needs to rethink its relationship with Christians
Sometimes it’s a wonder Israel can stand with all the self-inflicted gunshot wounds in its feet. Israeli police placed their…
Sadiq Khan would be wise to reject Keir Starmer’s peerage
Leaving aside those who have parted with a right old wodge of dosh over the years, there are mainly two…
Reform’s Malcolm Offord is a hopeless party leader
At this point there is only one way to salvage Reform’s Scottish Parliament election campaign. Granted it’s unorthodox and, well,…
Is Iran to blame for the Golders Green arson attack?
Have we just witnessed an Iranian attack on British soil? Overnight, four ambulances were burned on the premises of Hatzola,…
The real reason the Guardian is so hostile to Gail’s
Nothing good has ever followed the words ‘we need to talk’, ‘terms of service update’, or ‘by Jonathan Liew’, and…
Don’t force Catholics to abide by assisted dying
The Scottish Parliament is on the brink of passing a bill that would see Catholic hospitals and care homes shut…
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…
