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Stephen Daisley

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How could Holyrood not mourn Christina McKelvie?

How could Holyrood not mourn Christina McKelvie?
27.03.2025 2

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The Alba party has a mountain to climb

The Alba party has a mountain to climb
27.03.2025 10

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Keir Starmer is a gift to Scottish nationalism

Keir Starmer is a gift to Scottish nationalism
21.03.2025 3

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No one will thank Liz Kendall for doing her job

No one will thank Liz Kendall for doing her job
19.03.2025 4

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Scotland / Why can’t the SNP attract anyone with any talent?

Scotland /					 													 						Why can’t the SNP attract anyone with any talent?
18.03.2025 20

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Nicola Sturgeon wasted eight years in power

Nicola Sturgeon wasted eight years in power
12.03.2025 2

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What would Reform be without Nigel Farage?

What would Reform be without Nigel Farage?
12.03.2025 9

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Trump can’t override everything

05.03.2025 2

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Operation suck up / Trump is a bully but it’s a mistake to stand up to him

05.03.2025 10

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What Europe can learn from the White Houe clash

01.03.2025 2

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Palestinians blew their best chance for peace

27.02.2025 10

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Scotland’s public sector is growing out of control

19.02.2025 4

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Parliament is embarrassing itself

17.02.2025 10

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Israelis and Palestinians will be here again, and again, and again

15.02.2025 20

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The question that should be asked about the West Bank

11.02.2025 9

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Trump’s ICC sanctions will test an outdated institution

08.02.2025 10

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How John Swinney changes his stripes

04.02.2025 10

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At least Rachel Reeves is trying

29.01.2025 7

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Against the death penalty, even for Axel Rudakubana

24.01.2025 5

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Axel Rudakubana should never have been free to kill

22.01.2025 7

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Nine reasons why Trump means business this time

22.01.2025 20

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It’s no surprise that democracy is losing its appeal

15.01.2025 8

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Devolution is shortchanging England

The English taxpayer is not the primary audience for the Scottish government’s annual Budget, but one wonders what they might make of today’s...

04.12.2024 2

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The slippery slope to the return of the death penalty

Parliament has voted to proceed with Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, which will see the NHS offer terminally ill people the opportunity to...

30.11.2024 8

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Britain has a blasphemy law in all but name

Anyone outraged by Labour MP Tahir Ali calling on the government to introduce blasphemy laws has clearly not been paying attention, for there are...

28.11.2024 4

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Why Scots are less angry than the English

The Scots have long been stereotyped as dour, miserable whingers, and we finally have proof that this is pure slander. Ailsa Henderson, a political...

26.11.2024 5

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The International Criminal Court must fall

The arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant should be the last the International...

22.11.2024 6

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Democrats don’t need their own Joe Rogan

One of the new cliches of American politics is that progressives need their own Joe Rogan. The comedian turned podcaster has an audience that is...

15.11.2024 9

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How will progressives explain Amsterdam’s latest anti-semitic violence?

Since the scenes of Jews being hunted, beaten and kicked as they lay on the ground pleading for mercy in Amsterdam, antisemites have sought excuse,...

12.11.2024 6

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Liberals, wake up

Whenever Jews are killed or beaten, on 7 October or last night in Amsterdam, well-meaning sorts solemnly intone that this latest outrage must be a...

08.11.2024 4

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Will Democrats blame Israel for Kamala Harris’s defeat?

One of the few western nations where public opinion was in favour of Donald Trump returning to the White House is Israel. Israelis trust him as the...

06.11.2024 2

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My unsolicited advice to Kemi Badenoch

If there are two things new leaders of political parties dread, it’s unsolicited advice and Scotland. The advice because, even when it’s helpful,...

02.11.2024 3

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Make Halloween scary again

It was the early evening of 31 October and I was three years old, sitting in the living room with Mum, on the brink of bedtime, when I turned to...

30.10.2024 10

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Is Russell Findlay the Kemi Badenoch of Scotland?

When Russell Findlay stood to be Scottish Conservative leader, he talked the familiar language of ‘change’. I predicted that this would translate...

29.10.2024 4

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What Fight Club got right

There are three great makers of popular man-art working in Hollywood today – Michael Mann, Christopher Nolan and David Fincher – and all three work...

26.10.2024 3

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Murray Foote’s departure is yet another blow to the SNP

The SNP just can’t catch a break. The party is still reeling from a catastrophic general election result, a backlash over its decision to mimic...

18.10.2024 4

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Scotland / The SNP will regret expelling John Mason

You might have missed the news that the SNP has expelled one of its MSPs, announced as it was following the death of Alex Salmond. John Mason has...

16.10.2024 3

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Rebel respected / Salmond’s critics can’t ignore his lasting legacy

When he lost his Gordon seat in the 2017 general election, Alex Salmond told his count and those watching – friend and foe – that ‘you’ve not...

12.10.2024 4

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The SNP is in a donations row of its own

The thing about being holier than thou is that you actually have to be holier. Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, has made much of Sir...

09.10.2024 4

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What the West could learn from Israel

A brief update from Agence France Presse underscores the shift in power in the Middle East. The report, citing a German source, tells us that Joe...

09.10.2024 30

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Britain should just join the United States

Ruth Cadbury is hard at work campaigning for Kamala Harris ahead of November’s presidential election. It’s what you might expect from a Democrat...

04.10.2024 10

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Iran launches a missile attack on Israel

Iranian missiles are slicing through the evening sky over Tel Aviv as Tehran responds to the killing of Hezbollah leader and terrorist mastermind...

01.10.2024 3

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This is Israel’s greatest victory since the Six-Day War

There is a satirical Israeli song from the Second Lebanon War, ‘Yalla Ya Nasrallah’, with the chorus: ‘Come on, oh Nasrallah/we’ll fuck you up,...

28.09.2024 3

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Israel goes for Hezbollah’s leadership

Israel has carried out a daring air strike against Hezbollah’s headquarters. The Islamist terror group’s underground command centre, located below...

27.09.2024 2

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You reap what you sow, Sir Keir

The public response to Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers accepting gifts from Labour donors and others has been what you might expect: rhymes with...

27.09.2024 3

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Why is Labour so puritanical?

Can you be a progressive without being po-faced? I wonder sometimes, especially when I read that public health minister Andrew Gwynne is considering...

24.09.2024 5

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Is Scottish Labour really back?

Labour’s first conference from government in 14 years might not be taking place against an ideal backdrop, with the Prime Minister and other...

24.09.2024 3

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No, Rich Lowry didn’t say the N-word

Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review, is being cancelled for calling Haitian immigrants the N-word. One problem: he didn’t. Lowry was on...

21.09.2024 8

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Now we know how Keir Starmer will fall

After coasting his way to No. 10, Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership has got off to a pretty cursed start. Some of this wasn’t his fault, such as the...

17.09.2024 2

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The real significance of the winter fuel row

The question of whether to scrap winter fuel payments to all but the poorest retirees is a very British debate, in that it’s any sort of debate at...

10.09.2024 4

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