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Stephen DaisleyThe Spectator |
In Israeli politics, there is but one rule: never bet against Bibi. Yesterday’s Knesset elections were finally going to topple Benjamin Netanyahu,...
What should we make of Andy Burnham’s latest manoeuvres on EU membership and migration? One of the reasons he gives for reversing or partially...
SNP leader John Swinney finally agrees with Westminster on something. The Holyrood first minister has welcomed Downing Street’s decision to press...
There is a direct action group in this country which the government fears so much that its very existence has been criminalised. The Home Office...
Livestreaming the execution of mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan is a moral outrage but no one can explain quite why. Hasan’s crime was heinous. The...
Livestreaming the execution of mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan is a moral outrage but no one can explain quite why. Hasan’s crime was heinous. The...
A Spectator reader and Kemi Badenoch enthusiast gets in touch occasionally to remind me of my brief flirtation with Robert Jenrick as a preferable...
The Green party’s open declaration of war on Britain’s Jews is not really about the Green party or Britain’s Jews for that matter. The party is...
Should you be in the market for scorn towards Andy Burnham’s conference speech, there is plenty of it out there, including – shameless plug – my...
Is it possible to report the government to Prevent? I ask because I swear they’re trying to radicalise me. In the past few days...
Watching the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament, a thought often occurs: if these people won elections, imagine the runners up. The runner-up to...
Exciting news: free speech is high-status again. The decision by the organisers of Ed Sheeran’s US tour to drop anti-Israel rapper Macklemore is...
The slow demise of the United Kingdom is suddenly gaining speed. The proximate cause is Andy Burnham’s statement last Wednesday that Scotland and...
Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in November 2022 that the Scottish Parliament could not hold a unilateral referendum on breaking up Britain,...
Scottish politics has all the dynamism of day-old porridge. Nothing ever changes, except for the worse. The latest results from the Programme for...
With Andy Burnham’s government preparing to unveil sanctions against Israel, the pro-Palestinian lobby and the left more broadly has grounds for...
The Programme for Government – picture a dour, cheapo version of the King’s Speech – is an annual statement by the Scottish First Minister...
Dolly Parton was all-American. Born into the dirt-poor Tennessee hills of the Great Smokey Mountains, her upbringing reflected the indigent nature of...
Dolly Parton was all-American. Born into the dirt-poor Tennessee hills of the Great Smokey Mountains, her upbringing reflected the indigent nature of...
The Scots language advocate Billy Kay has caused a richt stooshie wi’ his thochts on Unionists and their lawte tae the kintra. The writer and...
The result in Clacton is more evidence for my thesis that voters are so entrenched in their attitudes towards Nigel Farage that his chances of...
A country is not a fiscal transfer. It can be many things – a loose federation of diverging cultures, a constitutional shotgun wedding, an...
The great civic crisis of our times is state capacity. When policies favoured by voters are repeatedly met with a bureaucratic 403 error – the...
Whatever happened to the Democrats? Party of FDR, Kennedy and Clinton. Idealistic, moderate, gave a vague impression of actually liking the United...
No. 10 (North and South alike) will be heartened by polling suggesting that the more the British public sees of Andy Burnham, the more they like him....
The Scottish Labour party is a bit like cigarette-smoking or the Church of Scotland: it used to be everywhere you looked, but now you can’t remember...
The leadership of the Scottish Labour party isn’t worth the price of a cold cup of tea. Anas Sarwar has confirmed this by jumping ship to a seat in...
Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar has raised eyebrows with a late-night tweet mocking England’s defeat in the World Cup semifinals. Even if...
The death of Ann Widdecombe calls to mind the song of the same name by Victoria Wood. The festive ditty describes the then-shadow home secretary, as...
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