Stephen Daisley

Mind your language if you want to speak in the Scottish Parliament. Newly elected presiding officer Kenny Gibson has told…

A spectre haunts Andy Burnham and the rest of the Left – the spectre of Thatcherism. In a video, the aspiring Labour leader, who is standing in the

Can Andy Burnham define ‘a woman’? The correct answer is ‘an adult human female’, though I would also accept ‘someone with no chance of being elected leader of the Labour party’. Burnham’s position on gender is under scrutiny after the resurfacing of an exchange from 2022 in which he was asked about men who self-identify

At this point, the real scoop would be finding a Green Party candidate who isn't a crank.

So many facets of the state are chronically inept and unreliable, it figures that the one body doing its job properly is getting it in the neck.

STEPHEN DAISLEY: Far from marking the end of the SNP finances scandal, Peter Murrell's guilty plea will only up the pressure on Nicola Sturgeon.

Peter Murrell’s £400,000 spending spree is the biggest, and certainly the most entertaining, political scandal to hit Scotland in years.

Peter Murrell's £400,000 spending spree is the biggest, and certainly the most entertaining, political scandal to hit Scotland in years.

Everyone else is thinking it, so I'm just going to say it: we need Tony Blair back in Downing Street. I don't know by what mechanism and I don't especially care.

Everyone else is thinking it, so I’m just going to say it: we need Tony Blair back in Downing Street. I don’t know by what mechanism and I don’t especially care. A by-election would be ideal, I suppose. They’re all the rage these days. Sedgefield is...