‘Fine with most dogs with correct intros.’

ROSA: ‘I am Queen Rosa, Empress of Cornwall Kennels, Supreme Leader of Canines. You, peasant, shall address me as 'Your Royal Pawesomeness'.'

This poll is based on a Scottish sub-sample of 131 (weighted).

This conversation has been started several times in Downing Street since the Boris era, but every time it has ended swiftly thereafter. Always for the same reason: no minister cares enough, knows enough, or has the necessary ideological commitment to devolution reform.

Supervillain origin story right here.

Watching last night’s Question Time. Democracy was a grievous mistake.

‘The SNP hoped that after two lightning rod first ministers someone with the charisma of a retractable bollard would bring much-needed stability.’

My latest sketch of John Swinney at #FMQs .

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It looks like the SNP’s graphic designer attended a Scottish school at some point in the past 17 years.

GB Energy, Time Capsule Campus.

On the day the government blocked Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish gender law (lowering the transition age to 16), Keegan went on Sky News and said she didn’t consider 16 too young because ‘I was working at 16, I was paying tax at 16, I was making decisions for myself at 16’.

The replies are… something else.

Nationalism is a threat to the UK’s political and territorial integrity. That doesn’t make Scots nats morally comparable to e.g. China or Hamas — which Rishi Sunak didn’t even say — but it is *obviously* a political threat and fine to say so.

If Caroline Nokes joined the Labour Party, how would we know?

‘We should not expect better from our incurably London-brained ruling classes. They exist in a state of permanent midwit outrage, their umbrage constantly shifting to the latest indignation served up by Twitter or James O’Brien or PoliticsJoe.’

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Scottish nationalism is a threat to the UK and it’s perfectly reasonable for the Prime Minister to say so.

More to the point, why don’t Scottish nationalists consider their cause a threat to the UK state?

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King Charles’ new portrait makes him look like a demon midway through being vanquished on an episode of Charmed but feeling pretty philosophical about it.

This is very good.

I love that Sunak’s speech is redacted on the Number 10 website. Whitehall is so allergic to political content that they edit the PM’s speeches after the fact. Scottish civil servants slap pro-independence speeches onto the Scottish Government website without a second thought.

.Union of Jewish Students president Edward Isaacs has warned vice-chancellors and even the Prime Minister about the scale of the antisemitism problem at British universities.

What will it take for them to listen?

I’ve written about it here:

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Jewish university students in Britain are experiencing ‘the worst antisemitism crisis… for a generation’.

This week my Mail+ column is about the intellectual fashion for hating Jews and asks why antisemitism is treated as a lesser form of racism.

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25 years ago today, the first MSPs were sworn in. But the political establishment is very quiet about this anniversary.

Tellingly so.

‘One might think a generation of self-government calls for a little pomp and circumstance. Instead, radio silence.’

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