Stephen Daisley

The dramatic music, columns of smoke gushing heavenwards, and the whizzing and popping of the stage pyrotechnics could not distract from the questions that hung over Nigel Farage as he took to the podium at Reform's conference.

This column has downright hectored ministers to approve drilling at Jackdaw, so reports that Andy Burnham is about to give the green light ought to be welcomed.

This column has urged, cajoled, harried and downright hectored ministers to approve drilling at Rosebank and Jackdaw, so reports that Andy Burnham

Whatever Burnham’s government might say publicly, the charge of Jew-hatred is politically useful for them. Their pivot against the Jewish state, expected to include settlement sanctions, is built on ‘stories’ that can be deadlier than weapons

With Andy Burnham's government preparing to unveil sanctions against Israel, the pro-Palestinian lobby and the left more broadly has grounds for celebration.

Scotland is stuck and will remain so until it is prepared to confront the debilitating flaws of devolution

'We invented education,' Malcolm Offord gushed to those listening, or at least present, in the debating chamber...

Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in November 2022 that the Scottish Parliament could not hold a unilateral referendum on breaking up Britain, Scottish independence has been dead in the water. Nicola Sturgeon went, Humza Yousaf came (and went not too long after), the party lost all but a handful of its Commons seats in

Scottish Nationalism just had its best week in years, and it had nothing whatsoever to do with John Swinney.

They presided, the four of them, at an endless table of microphones and bottled water, their dress business- like and their remarks suffocated by jargon.