Stephen Daisley

When an SNP wave crashed into Scotland's electoral map in 2015, all but wiping out Labour on a campaign accusing that party of having betrayed its voters, I was the gloomy pundit who predicted that the SNP was likely to fall into the same trap.

Now we know why she remained silent in the police interview. If Nicola Sturgeon had replied 'no comment' to Laura Kuenssberg's every question, she would have come out of Sunday's sit-down with more sympathy and credibility.

To the anti-racist, the potential for a crime to stir up ill-feeling towards a minority demographic is a bigger concern than the truth

I don't know who's been giving Stephen Flynn E-numbers but John Swinney 's would-be successor was hyperactive yesterday.

The SNP embezzlement scandal has thus far trained its spotlight on Peter Murrell and his penchant for pilfery, and on his estranged spouse Nicola Sturgeon, a strategic mastermind with the observational skills of Mr Magoo.

Per Sir Humphrey Appleby: ‘A basic rule of government is never look into anything you don’t have to and never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be.’ It is in this spirit that John Swinney, Scottish First Minister...

The British have become so inured to our elites’ compulsion for national self-harm that news of foreign terrorists raking in UK taxpayers’ cash will strike many as shocking but not surprising. The Telegraph’s revelations about the fate of £28bn in foreign aid and Covid loans, which was split between hostile regimes, Islamist terrorists and organised crime gangs, provides another case study in the British state’s incompetence, inefficiency, and vulnerability to corruption and con artists.

Per Sir Humphrey Appleby: ‘A basic rule of government is never look into anything you don't have to and never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be.'

Kemi Badenoch has laid bare the grim reality of Labour’s defence spending plans: a worst-of-both-worlds scenario in which taxpayers will be soaked to fund new expenditure that won’t meet Britain’s security needs.

I can't remember the last time there was a First Minster's Questions like it. The air was charged with fury and indignation, irreconcilable certainties slamming into one another