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Stephen Daisley

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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 country in the eye of a...

01.04.2026 9

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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 country in the eye of a...

30.03.2026 10

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Ignoble ennoblement / 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 kinds of life peer: those who are no longer a...

28.03.2026 10

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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 kinds of life peer: those who are no longer a...

27.03.2026 10

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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, illegal, but...

26.03.2026 10

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Have we just seen Iran strike in London?

Have we just witnessed an Iranian attack on British soil? Overnight, four ambulances were burned on the premises of Hatzola, a Jewish charity in...

23.03.2026 10

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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 the evidence is really...

17.03.2026 10

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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 down. The Bishops’ Conference of...

13.03.2026 10

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Why Alba failed

Farewell, then, Alba, the little party that tried to take on the Scottish political establishment and learned, as others had before it, that the...

10.03.2026 10

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Dawson's Creek was cheap therapy for millennials

If you were a teenager anywhere in the vicinity of the late 1990s, the opening bars of Paula Cole’s ‘I Don’t Want to Wait’ will only ever...

09.03.2026 10

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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 every parent’s imagination, occupying the...

07.03.2026 30

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Culture clash / 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 consequences. But most of...

03.03.2026 30

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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 is illegal. They say...

01.03.2026 10

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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 today a legitimate observation. In the wake...

27.02.2026 10

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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 conservative...

26.02.2026 10

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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. So, here...

20.02.2026 80

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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...

16.02.2026 70

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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 a Glaswegian after Hiroshi...

15.02.2026 60

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Britain has an antisemitism problem

12.02.2026 7

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What Farage fails to understand about working from home

10.02.2026 7

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It is Anas Sarwar who must now resign

10.02.2026 20

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The lanyard class is not ready for Reform in Scotland

08.02.2026 9

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Why Labour should stand by Starmer

05.02.2026 7

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Scotland / Why are men still in women’s prisons?

03.02.2026 10

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Democrats must ignore the witterings of Billie Eilish

02.02.2026 8

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The SNP is deluded about the 7 May elections

28.01.2026 10

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Freedom of information / Does the SNP think it is above the law?

24.01.2026 20

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Does the SNP think it is above the law?

23.01.2026 10

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Europe must give Trump what he wants

21.01.2026 10

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Scotland / Malcolm Offord must improve

18.01.2026 20

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Malcolm Offord must improve

17.01.2026 10

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Protests / We are on our way to becoming buffer-zone Britain

14.01.2026 20

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Why can’t a Jewish MP visit his local school?

13.01.2026 20

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The Emiratis are right to keep their kids out of Britain

10.01.2026 20

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The trouble with Minnesota

08.01.2026 10

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The SNP is up to its old referendum tricks

07.01.2026 9

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Sell-out / Britain can still escape Starmer’s dreadful Chagos deal

06.01.2026 10

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Making a scene / Trump is winning the Maduro meme war

05.01.2026 10

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Alaa Abd El-Fattah / The British state radicalised me

31.12.2025 20

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The British state radicalised me

29.12.2025 50

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How to stop the next massacre of British Jews

24.12.2025 20

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U-turn / Starmer has nothing going for him

24.12.2025 20

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Starmer has nothing going for him

23.12.2025 10

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