Stephen Daisley

If there are two things new leaders of political parties dread, it’s unsolicited advice and Scotland. But I'll try and be helpful.

Budget Day was sent to test our faith in democracy. I'm convinced of it.

Progressives in search of a scapegoat for Kamala Harris's US election defeat will quickly arrive at Israel

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 ‘wake-up call’ about the threat of anti-Semitism. Ah, the Wake-Up Call. Much vaunted, long awaited, never heard. There have been no shortage of wake-up calls. Off the top of my

On a good day, First Minister's Questions is as illuminating as a power cut during an eclipse.

Four days after the ugly events in Amsterdam, disorder broke out again as rioters chanted ‘kankerjoden’, Dutch for ‘Jewish cancer’

There's an old joke about a wily American lawmaker who was refreshingly candid about his flexibility: 'Them's my principles; but if you don't like them, I kin change them.'

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 four-fifths male and 51 per cent aged 18-34, and it has not escaped the Democrats’ notice that, while women aged 18 to 29 voted overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris, men in

A failure to deliver is nothing new in SNP-run Scotland but it is not often that this is a cause for relief.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-defence minister Yoav Gallant