Stephen Daisley

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

In the space of only a week, Stephen Flynn announced then unannounced his plan to sit in two parliaments at once.

Politics Notebook #20: The petition that aims to bring down the government.

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

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

The convention that the state should not kill outside of war has been shattered. It can be a party to the premature death of a citizen.

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 announcements from SNP finance minister Shona Robison. An extra £2 billion for health and social care, bumping the overall cost of that portfolio to just under £22 billion. An additional £800 million

The Finance Secretary had made a list and checked it twice before ploughing money into those things her party's voters consider nice. Shona Robison was going to town.