Stephen Daisley

The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.

My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

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Bari Weiss was meant to fade – instead, she’s taking over - The Jewish Chronicle Driven from the New York Times, she built The Free Press into a powerhouse, challenged the legacy media on everything from Israel to free speech, and may soon rise to top ranks of CBS. For America’s p...

The rumours were true: Bari Weiss has been appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News. Here is a thing I wrote about the move for the @jewishchron.bsky.social a few weeks ago.

STEPHEN DAISLEY: Politicians have left Jews living in fear Their names were Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz.

‘Listen to Jews, take their concerns seriously and treat them with the same respect you afford more electorally significant minorities. Until then, take your solidarity and shove it.’

My @dailymail.co.uk column on political posturing and the Manchester synagogue attack.

Do Palestinians want Hamas gone? Discussion of Donald Trump’s peace proposal for Gaza revolves around one question: who is for it and who is against it?

A deradicalised Gaza is impossible for the same reason a two-state solution is impossible: the Palestinians don’t want it.

Me in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

STEPHEN DAISLEY: Menzies 'Ming' Campbell belonged to a principled age Menzies Campbell was in the noble tradition of Scottish Liberalism. In tone, he belonged to an earlier political age, one in which principles were held fiercely.

I’ve written about Menzies Campbell for Saturday’s @mailonlinescot.bsky.social. #buyapaper

‘Menzies Campbell was faithful to his conscience and lived a life of public service with integrity at its heart. It was his longest and final race and he won it by a mile.’

STEPHEN DAISLEY: Nicola Sturgeon is only in it for herself Political parties are built to weather storms but people less so, and especially those people in Sturgeon's constituency. They need a parliamentarian who is in it for them. Nicola Sturgeon is only in ...

‘Nicola Sturgeon has spoken just 12 times in Holyrood in the past 12 months. Half of those were points of order about problems with her voting app. Seventy-five grand for piping up once a month. Nice work if you can get it.’

My latest for @dailymail.co.uk.

STEPHEN DAISLEY: Swinney serves up more waffle than an all-night... 'This is Scotland's first ever Innovation Week,' Russell Findlay told the chamber.

‘Independence means getting powers and then everything works and you never have to make hard choices and everyone lives happily ever after. This isn’t nationalism, it’s Hans Christian Andersen with flags.’

My @dailymail.co.uk sketch of this week’s #FMQs.

Keir Starmer’s Palestine doesn’t exist In recognising a state of Palestine, Starmer attempts not to halt a tide but to summon a new one which flows counter to history.

Why the UK is about to become much, much more hostile to Israel.

Me on Starmer, Cnut, and the illusion of power in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

STEPHEN DAISLEY: The governing class tells migrants: We'll... Leave it to Humza Yousaf to come within spitting distance of a good point then miss by a country mile.

‘In a vanishingly short span of time, the UK has undergone unprecedented demographic transformation. At the turn of the millennium, fewer than one in ten Britons was born overseas, today the figure is one in six.‘

My @dailymail.co.uk column is on growing opposition to immigration in Scotland.

STEPHEN DAISLEY: Douglas Ross chucked a verbal grenade at Holyrood... You could have heard a pin drop, namely the one off the grenade Ross was about to chuck in Swinney's lap.

‘Wait, you’re telling me the SNP can’t manage a budget? Wow. That surprises me. This is my surprised tone.’

My @dailymail.co.uk sketch of this week’s #FMQs.

No dogs, no Israelis Politics Notebook #29: Britain’s Defence Academy has banned Israelis. Here’s who they welcome instead.

The UK’s Defence Academy will no longer allow Israelis into its Royal College of Defence Studies.

So I decided to take a look at which countries they’re only too happy to cooperate with. Here’s what I found.

Holyrood is becoming a part-time parliament. They're devoting... The Scottish parliament doesn't get enough credit for how hard it works. MSPs have been back from recess for just two weeks but my how busy they have been.

My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on Holyrood becoming the Palestine parliament and what Westminster should do to reassert its primacy on foreign affairs.

Six questions the National must answer The National must have some kind of early-warning system for incoming criticism of the Scottish Government – the Treason Tracker, perhaps?

Some @thespectator1828.bsky.social thoughts on The National’s keen interest in Scotland Against Antisemitism.

Bari Weiss was meant to fade – instead, she’s taking over - The Jewish Chronicle Driven from the New York Times, she built The Free Press into a powerhouse, challenged the legacy media on everything from Israel to free speech, and may soon rise to top ranks of CBS. For America’s p...

Bari Weiss is putting the mainstream back into mainstream media.

My latest piece for the @jewishchron.bsky.social.

Scots Jews are entitled to a First Minister who acts with... Leadership is more than taking decisions and exercising power. It is an ethos of character, judgement, temperance, and responsibility.

How John Swinney betrayed Scotland’s Jewish community.

My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on the SNP leader’s reckless and unfounded accusation of Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza.

Britain needs a First Amendment Well, if they’re arresting comedians, at least Nish Kumar is safe. Graham Linehan, not so much. The British like to sniff that Americans don’t get irony. Arresting a comedian fresh off the plane from ...

My take on Graham Linehan in @thespectator1828.bsky.social:

‘You shouldn’t punch people in the balls, unless they ask nicely, and I doubt the police will turn up over a bloke in the ladies’ bogs at M&S, unless of course you tell them he’s in there tying an England flag to the Tampax machine.’

Middle class types wanting to soothe guilt are to blame for so much Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay, the new co-leaders of the Scottish Green Party, fill me with existential dread.

My latest @dailymail.co.uk column performs the vital public service of having a right go at the new leaders of the Scottish Green Party.

The truth of the British schoolgirl with an axe: STEPHEN DAISLEY It is a grim portrait straight from the streets of broken Britain. A teenage girl filmed allegedly brandishing a knife and an axe in Dundee last Saturday.

The Dundee girl video is a snapshot of British poverty and despair and left-behind communities. It shouldn’t be viral content for Twitter grifters or morbid entertainment for culture warriors.

Some thoughts from me in the @dailymail.co.uk.

What's really behind Nicola Sturgeon's latest antics: STEPHEN DAISLEY I'm not one for conspiracy theories but I'm beginning to wonder if Nicola Sturgeon is secretly working for Westminster.

‘In one shot, she is seen standing behind a glass wall, peering out intently. Perhaps it was meant as a metaphor for the gilded cage of political life, but I was waiting for her to ask Clarice if the lambs had stopped screaming.’

Me on how Nicola Sturgeon damages the SNP.

Farage, flags and the forgotten English From St George’s Cross to the Union Jack, Britain’s flag debates reveal the gulf between public opinion and elite disdain for patriotism.

I’ve written for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social about the English, the elites and who exactly is an extremist.

(Which I’m sure will go down really well on BlueSky.)

#raisethecolours

Kate Forbes showed real bravery There is a certain worldly cynicism aroused by the announcement that a politician is stepping down to spend more time with their family. It was for a long time the refuge of MPs who had earned themsel...

Some thoughts on Kate Forbes over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

Almost every reply, and pretty much every American reply, to this story is about Trump. It’s sort of reassuring that even the most BlueSky-brained resistance libs remain unmistakably American in their cultural narcissism and total incuriosity about any country not featured nightly on Jake Tapper.

Do Donald Trump's fans like South Park or not? It marks the first time the White House press office has responded to an animated series mocking the size of the presidential appendage

I’ve written about South Park, Trump and retarded faggots for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

‘If you love comedy, the self-serious, woke and anti-woke alike, are the enemy. The dull, scowling, umbrage-taking, laughter-policing enemy. It is your duty to scandalise their soulless sensibilities.’

The problems with a state of Palestine France intends to recognise a state of Palestine at the United Nations, which I'm sure will be followed by UK recognition of the same.

On the futility of recognising a ‘Palestine’ that doesn’t and might never exist:

‘No amount of recognition can will into existence a Palestinian state or the leadership, civil society, or norms required to build and sustain one.’

Over at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

We Catholics must reject that old anti-Israel strain in our church - The Jewish Chronicle An errant IDF tank shell killed three civilians at Holy Family in Gaza – a tragedy that warrants mourning, not a pretext for furthering that strand of special antagonism toward the Jewish state

‘Catholics ought to be deeply troubled by the Holy Family killings, but they should not be used as a pretext to further that strain of special antagonism that runs through the Church and the faithful when it comes to Israel.’

I’ve written about Gaza and Catholicism for the @jewishchron.bsky.social.

It's time to overthrow the lanyardocracy Sandie Peggie has been put through hell but something good might come of her ordeal if it accelerates regime change.

‘If NHS Fife had simply shredded the Equality Act and glued the pieces back together at random, it would have made for a more coherent policy than the one put in place.’

Some @thespectator1828.bsky.social thoughts on Sandie Peggie, gender ideology and the lanyardocracy that rules over us.

STEPHEN DAISLEY:  About time Greens put the clown car in for its MOT Ross Greer has the only qualification required to be leader of a political party: when he speaks, his hands jut out in front of him as though waiting for an invisible hand drier to turn on.

My @dailymail.co.uk sketch of the launch of Ross Greer’s leadership campaign.

‘It’s a bit like Dumbledore retiring and Ron Weasley proposing to take over Hogwarts.’

Rachel Reeves, Winston Churchill and a short history of crying in politics Rachel Reeves is far from the first politician to be seen crying. The tearful politician has been with us for some time

On the history of (and less than sympathic public attitude towards) crying in politics.

The IDF is not just Israel’s army: it is a symbol of Jewish self-defence Strong Jews, sovereign Jews, Jews you can’t push around.... that’s what Zionists are

Israel’s army represents what anti-Zionists fear the most: strong Jews, sovereign Jews, Jews you can’t push around. That’s why they chant ‘death to the IDF’.

I’ve written about #Glastonbury over at the @telegraphnews.bsky.social.

Me before watching this: meh, thinking of giving up on Bluesky.

Me after watching this: I AM NEVER, EVER LEAVING THIS SITE.