Stephen Daisley

It was F Scott Fitzgerald who said there were no second acts in American lives. American lives could do with a House of Lords, source of many a second act in the lives of British politicians.

The leadership of the Scottish Labour party isn't worth the price of a cold cup of tea.

While devolution is a deeply flawed system, it is the system we're stuck with until we get a Prime Minister with the courage to admit that the status quo isn't working.

In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the vinyl collection. The parting of ways between the Catholic Church and the...

The Scottish Labour party is a bit like cigarette-smoking or the Church of Scotland: it used to be everywhere you looked, but now you can’t remember the last time you saw it. We have been reminded of the party’s existence thanks to the abrupt exit of...

The Scottish Labour party is a bit like cigarette-smoking or the Church of Scotland: it used to be everywhere you looked, but now you can't remember the last time you saw it.

55 per cent of Brits say Farage is ‘doing a bad job’, but break that number down further and you will see how dire the polling is for him.

Amid the international clamour over Ceuta, the Spanish city invaded by 60,000 migrants from Morocco, there has been a noticeable hush from one quarter: the Left.

The story of North Sea oil is bound up with that of British Petroleum. The fuel giant has been producing energy from that seabed for 60 years.

Whatever happened to the Democrats? Party of FDR, Kennedy and Clinton. Idealistic, moderate, gave a vague impression of actually liking the United States. That pragmatic, patriotic party is scarcely discernible from the hideous creature that stands...