The Tories are governing for Westminster obsessives
You know the Tories are worried about their core vote when they start talking tough on the BBC licence fee.…
Alistair Darling only saved the country
Alistair Darling was one of the most consequential politicians of the past half-century but he had the misfortune to be…
There’s no one to vote for if you want controlled immigration
There has been much Tory huffing and puffing about the ONS revising 2022 net migration to 745,000, up from its…
Removing Hamas will not solve everything
Ever since Hamas invaded Israel, massacred 1,200 of its citizens and kidnapped 240 as hostages, there has been an effort…
The problem with the BBC’s Israel coverage
Since the 7 October massacre, various institutions across the West have damaged their reputations when covering the murder of 1,200…
Suella Braverman hit Sunak where it hurts
Sacked ministers seldom have nice things to say about the boss but Suella Braverman’s letter to Rishi Sunak is a…
David Cameron? Seriously?
All political careers end in failure but few return to prove it a second time. David Cameron, forced to resign…
Suella Braverman is right for once
There can be few sins in politics graver than giving Suella Braverman a point. Yet that is exactly what the…
TikTok teens have an anti-Semitism blind spot
How could anyone hate Lily Ebert? The 99-year-old from Golders Green dedicates her life to teaching younger generations about the…
It’s time to have a think about devolution
The Scottish government has launched another white paper on independence, this time on the subject of migration. It is the…
How Britain failed Israel
That the United Kingdom’s central institutions are rotten, crumbling, captured and perhaps beyond recovery is not news, but the Gaza…
Why Israel is set to invade Gaza
If reports this evening are correct, Israel is stepping up its ground operations in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post quotes IDF…
Britain needs to rethink devolution
Scotland is stuck. This week has only confirmed it. SNP leader Humza Yousaf used his party conference in Aberdeen to…
What Britain should do about Hamas
London is, at last, beaming Israeli flags onto its most recognisable buildings. This is an improvement on how some of…
Israel declares war on Hamas
Some 5,000 rockets have rained down on Israeli civilians in an attack co-ordinated from land, sea and air by Gaza-based…
We should all care about the dire state of our prisons
Charlie Taylor is not so much the canary in the coal mine of prison conditions as the British Gas engineer…
Who polices our armed officers?
When is it acceptable for the police to kill? How do we regulate their use of lethal force? What is…
The Union is in trouble, however this week’s trans ruling goes
Up before the Court of Session in Edinburgh today is a legal question: was Scottish Secretary Alister Jack’s decision to…
Prisons aren’t working
Will we learn the lessons of Daniel Khalife? It depends what those lessons are. If they revolve solely around prison…
Scotland is right to try drug consumption rooms
Scotland is the drug deaths capital of Europe. Last year saw 1,051 drug misuse fatalities, a rate 2.7 times higher…
Bring in the Gen X politicians!
American politics has become a tug-of-war between two generations. Boomers (and those older) dominate positions of power even as their…
The rise of America’s anti-corporate populists
They are the Odd Couple of the United States Senate. She is a progressive Democrat and senior senator from true-blue…
GERS Day isn’t great for the Union
For a decade or so, GERS Day has been something of an annual gloatfest for opponents of Scottish independence. The…
Oliver Anthony and the snobbery of American conservatives
If there is a right-wing cultural aesthetic in America, it is low-brow resentment. The old liberal-conservative tradition prized truth, beauty…
Arise! Scottish nationalists could soon have their first Lord
It’s not every day a supporter of Scottish independence is in the running for a peerage, least of all from…
