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…
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…
