Stephen Daisley
@stephendaisley.bsky.social
You won’t like anything I post here and I’m sorry for that.
Op-ed journalist, political commentator, and critic. Pauline Kael was right about Hiroshima, Mon Amour.
https://stephendaisley.com/where-to-find-me/
Op-ed journalist, political commentator, and critic. Pauline Kael was right about Hiroshima, Mon Amour.
https://stephendaisley.com/where-to-find-me/
Pinned
Fantastic Priests and Where to Find Them
Ticket Stubs #13: The Scarlet and the Black (1983), True Confessions (1981), Father Stu (2022), and The Cardinal (1963).
stephendaisley.substack.com
Fantastic Priests and Where to Find Them
Irish cleric Mgr. Hugh O’Flaherty hid thousands of Jews and POWs from the Nazis during WWII. To mark the centenary of his ordination, I’ve written about movies featuring O’Flaherty and other heroic priests.
Irish cleric Mgr. Hugh O’Flaherty hid thousands of Jews and POWs from the Nazis during WWII. To mark the centenary of his ordination, I’ve written about movies featuring O’Flaherty and other heroic priests.
Fantastic Priests and Where to Find Them
Irish cleric Mgr. Hugh O’Flaherty hid thousands of Jews and POWs from the Nazis during WWII. To mark the centenary of his ordination, I’ve written about movies featuring O’Flaherty and other heroic priests.
Irish cleric Mgr. Hugh O’Flaherty hid thousands of Jews and POWs from the Nazis during WWII. To mark the centenary of his ordination, I’ve written about movies featuring O’Flaherty and other heroic priests.
Fantastic Priests and Where to Find Them
Ticket Stubs #13: The Scarlet and the Black (1983), True Confessions (1981), Father Stu (2022), and The Cardinal (1963).
stephendaisley.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Fantastic Priests and Where to Find Them
Irish cleric Mgr. Hugh O’Flaherty hid thousands of Jews and POWs from the Nazis during WWII. To mark the centenary of his ordination, I’ve written about movies featuring O’Flaherty and other heroic priests.
Irish cleric Mgr. Hugh O’Flaherty hid thousands of Jews and POWs from the Nazis during WWII. To mark the centenary of his ordination, I’ve written about movies featuring O’Flaherty and other heroic priests.
Israel is beleaguered by the twin menaces of Palestinian terrorism and settler violence. Here’s how it can address both.
My latest post on Substack.
My latest post on Substack.
Settling down
The Promising Land #9: How to address the twin problems of settler and Palestinian violence.
comment.press
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Israel is beleaguered by the twin menaces of Palestinian terrorism and settler violence. Here’s how it can address both.
My latest post on Substack.
My latest post on Substack.
Eurovision is such trash, Israel should be boycotting *it*.
My take in the @jewishchron.bsky.social.
My take in the @jewishchron.bsky.social.
The one Israel boycott I back is Eurovision. The contest is trash - The Jewish Chronicle
I’m a passionate Zionist. But a man has his limits, and while I’ll gladly defend checkpoints, settlements and exploding pagers, I draw the line at Netta Barzilai impersonating a chicken
www.thejc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Eurovision is such trash, Israel should be boycotting *it*.
My take in the @jewishchron.bsky.social.
My take in the @jewishchron.bsky.social.
As polls continue to show the SNP on course to win a fifth Scottish Parliament election in a row, my @dailymail.co.uk column asks a difficult question: what if Scottish Labour simply can’t win at Holyrood any more?
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
As polls continue to show the SNP on course to win a fifth Scottish Parliament election in a row, my @dailymail.co.uk column asks a difficult question: what if Scottish Labour simply can’t win at Holyrood any more?
Living next door to Ireland is weird. It’s like having a neighbour who is super friendly and charming and then you go over for dinner one night and every wall is just photographs of random Jews with red string running between them.
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog
Israel is the ultimate malefactor of the Irish imagination, the bogeyman of Dublin politics and Dublin media.
www.spectator.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Living next door to Ireland is weird. It’s like having a neighbour who is super friendly and charming and then you go over for dinner one night and every wall is just photographs of random Jews with red string running between them.
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
A shout-out to “Gaslight” (George Cukor, 1944), one of my favourite movies, in this week’s @dailymail.co.uk sketch. Incidentally, on the list of Things More Watchable Than Holyrood #FMQs, “Gaslight” is in the top 5,000. Top 500, in fact.
We're being gaslit by the SNP...and they're charging us for the gas
Spend long enough observing First Minister's Questions and it gets a bit like that classic film Gaslight.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A shout-out to “Gaslight” (George Cukor, 1944), one of my favourite movies, in this week’s @dailymail.co.uk sketch. Incidentally, on the list of Things More Watchable Than Holyrood #FMQs, “Gaslight” is in the top 5,000. Top 500, in fact.
‘With his viral video explaining debt-to-GDP ratio through the medium of biscuits, Gordon McKee is putting the “nom” into economics.’
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take on the custard creams debt video and why Number 10 should take note of a Labour MP who speaks Human.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take on the custard creams debt video and why Number 10 should take note of a Labour MP who speaks Human.
Make Gordon McKee a minister
With his viral video explaining debt-to-GDP ratio through the medium of biscuits, Gordon McKee is putting the ‘nom’ into economics. Since his election to the Commons last year, the Glasgow South MP ha...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
‘With his viral video explaining debt-to-GDP ratio through the medium of biscuits, Gordon McKee is putting the “nom” into economics.’
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take on the custard creams debt video and why Number 10 should take note of a Labour MP who speaks Human.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take on the custard creams debt video and why Number 10 should take note of a Labour MP who speaks Human.
Growing the economy is more important than cutting emissions. Death to Net Zero.
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on the need to drill, baby, drill in the North Sea.
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on the need to drill, baby, drill in the North Sea.
STEPHEN DAISLEY: The economy is more important than emissions
If we want to cut harmful emissions we might begin with the hot air emanating from the Net Zero cult.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Growing the economy is more important than cutting emissions. Death to Net Zero.
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on the need to drill, baby, drill in the North Sea.
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on the need to drill, baby, drill in the North Sea.
‘I don’t tweet from an air-conditioned basement suite at the Mossad headquarters – more’s the pity – but from right here in good old Blighty. Look, I have the certificate to prove it.’
I’ve written about the great Twitter unmasking for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
I’ve written about the great Twitter unmasking for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
The global cottage industry gaming America's culture wars
The influencer industry has been left reeling by a new function on X which allows readers to see the location from which any given account is operating
www.spectator.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
‘I don’t tweet from an air-conditioned basement suite at the Mossad headquarters – more’s the pity – but from right here in good old Blighty. Look, I have the certificate to prove it.’
I’ve written about the great Twitter unmasking for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
I’ve written about the great Twitter unmasking for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
My @dailymail.co.uk sketch of #FMQs features The Football, the job-killing political class, and the grim plight of Anas Sarwar.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My @dailymail.co.uk sketch of #FMQs features The Football, the job-killing political class, and the grim plight of Anas Sarwar.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Northern Irish schools must no longer teach pupils that Christianity is an absolute truth. The Supreme Court says doing so contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights.
Over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social, I consider the cultural and civilisational consequences.
Over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social, I consider the cultural and civilisational consequences.
Northern Ireland's Christian RE crackdown should trouble us all
This is a story about teaching materials in a Northern Ireland school, but it’s a story about a great deal more than that
www.spectator.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Northern Irish schools must no longer teach pupils that Christianity is an absolute truth. The Supreme Court says doing so contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights.
Over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social, I consider the cultural and civilisational consequences.
Over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social, I consider the cultural and civilisational consequences.
When ideology meets reality and you still choose ideology.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social bit on Helen Webberley’s GB News appearance — and why the law on both sides of the Atlantic must catch up with an emerging body of evidence on the risks and harms of gender medicine.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social bit on Helen Webberley’s GB News appearance — and why the law on both sides of the Atlantic must catch up with an emerging body of evidence on the risks and harms of gender medicine.
Helen Webberley is terrifying
Ben Leo’s interview with Helen Webberley is a chilling dramatisation of what happens when ideology meets reality – and ideology persists.
www.spectator.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
When ideology meets reality and you still choose ideology.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social bit on Helen Webberley’s GB News appearance — and why the law on both sides of the Atlantic must catch up with an emerging body of evidence on the risks and harms of gender medicine.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social bit on Helen Webberley’s GB News appearance — and why the law on both sides of the Atlantic must catch up with an emerging body of evidence on the risks and harms of gender medicine.
The Parliamentary Labour Party and the Bluesky shut-ins are frothing over Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms. Truth be told, they are achingly moderate and to the left of the average Labour voter. But they are a welcome start.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take. (Which is the correct take.)
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take. (Which is the correct take.)
The return of migration centrism
None of Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms is as radical as the terms in which she is talking about this issue. In an op-ed teeing up Monday’s announcement, she writes: ‘Unless we act, we risk losing po...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Parliamentary Labour Party and the Bluesky shut-ins are frothing over Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms. Truth be told, they are achingly moderate and to the left of the average Labour voter. But they are a welcome start.
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take. (Which is the correct take.)
My @thespectator1828.bsky.social take. (Which is the correct take.)
Out in the Hills, Alan Cumming’s Pitlochry-based LGBTQIA+ festival, will showcase ‘a time and space built on and by nature, community care and trans ancestry’.
We’re about to find out the Picts were non-binary, aren’t we?
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
We’re about to find out the Picts were non-binary, aren’t we?
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
Scotland does not need an LGBTQIA+ festival
Alan Cumming is back in Scotland to take up the artistic directorship of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
www.spectator.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Out in the Hills, Alan Cumming’s Pitlochry-based LGBTQIA+ festival, will showcase ‘a time and space built on and by nature, community care and trans ancestry’.
We’re about to find out the Picts were non-binary, aren’t we?
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
We’re about to find out the Picts were non-binary, aren’t we?
Me in @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
‘Every now and then a Green MSP is allowed out unsupervised and, unaware of just how batty their party’s policies are, happily blabs about one of them in all their lunatic detail.’
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on Ariane Burgess and THOSE comments.
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on Ariane Burgess and THOSE comments.
STEPHEN DAISLEY: Ariane won't be the only Green who hates this country
Every now and then a Green MSP is allowed out unsupervised and, unaware of just how batty their party's policies are, happily blabs about one of them in all their lunatic detail.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
‘Every now and then a Green MSP is allowed out unsupervised and, unaware of just how batty their party’s policies are, happily blabs about one of them in all their lunatic detail.’
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on Ariane Burgess and THOSE comments.
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on Ariane Burgess and THOSE comments.
‘All those strategies and processes and cold, official acronyms tasked with safeguarding. None of them safeguarded Taylor. Instead, the state looked the other way. Taylor has a right to know why.’
My sketch of this week’s #fmqs.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
My sketch of this week’s #fmqs.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Tory leader gave voice to young women robbed of their childhoods
Taylor likely never expected to be the subject of FMQs. The proceedings of the Scottish Parliament seldom concern themselves with the likes of her.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
‘All those strategies and processes and cold, official acronyms tasked with safeguarding. None of them safeguarded Taylor. Instead, the state looked the other way. Taylor has a right to know why.’
My sketch of this week’s #fmqs.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
My sketch of this week’s #fmqs.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Don’t get too excited, Tories. Restoring impartiality at the BBC would be a mammoth task — one your party has shown no interest in.
Some thoughts over on my Substack.
Some thoughts over on my Substack.
The crisis at the BBC is no victory for the right
Politics Notebook #30: The Conservatives will only ever conserve progressive institutions, not reform them.
comment.press
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Don’t get too excited, Tories. Restoring impartiality at the BBC would be a mammoth task — one your party has shown no interest in.
Some thoughts over on my Substack.
Some thoughts over on my Substack.
REVEALED: The right-wing plot to undermine the BBC.
By me, over at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
By me, over at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
How a right-wing putsch felled the infallible BBC
The BBC’s on-air talent is muttering darkly about political campaigns and the corporation being ‘under attack’.
www.spectator.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
REVEALED: The right-wing plot to undermine the BBC.
By me, over at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
By me, over at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
I’ve written about my favourite movie, and on the most appropriate day of the year: Halloween.
Boogeyman nights
Ticket Stubs #12: Fearing the reaper in John Carpenter’s “Halloween” and fearing him somewhat less in “Halloween II”.
comment.press
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I’ve written about my favourite movie, and on the most appropriate day of the year: Halloween.
Really good thread on the SNP’s risible energy policies.
1/ In today’s Mail, @stephendaisley.bsky.social mentions a conversation we had about the SNP’s energy policies. Short 🧵 with sources and a little bit of additional explanation…
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Really good thread on the SNP’s risible energy policies.
Why do police and prosecutors rush to the aid of every other minority but turn a blind eye when it’s Jews under threat?
I’ve written about the harsh realities of multiculturalism for @telegraphnews.bsky.social.
I’ve written about the harsh realities of multiculturalism for @telegraphnews.bsky.social.
The treatment of British Jews proves the lie at the heart of multiculturalism
This ideology cloaks itself in platitudes about tolerance while downplaying attitudes inimical to a free society
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Why do police and prosecutors rush to the aid of every other minority but turn a blind eye when it’s Jews under threat?
I’ve written about the harsh realities of multiculturalism for @telegraphnews.bsky.social.
I’ve written about the harsh realities of multiculturalism for @telegraphnews.bsky.social.
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on how ideology, whether Net Zero fundamentalism or anti-nuclear dogmatism, is a threat to our energy security.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My latest @dailymail.co.uk column is on how ideology, whether Net Zero fundamentalism or anti-nuclear dogmatism, is a threat to our energy security.
newspaperscotland.mailplus.co.uk/data/6840/re...
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I’ve written about Diane Keaton (1946-2025) and two of the most frustrating directors she worked with.
Everything You Always Wanted to Say About Woody Allen* (*But Were Afraid to Admit)
Ticket Stubs #11: Remembering Diane Keaton in her roles in “Annie Hall” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar”.
comment.press
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’ve written about Diane Keaton (1946-2025) and two of the most frustrating directors she worked with.
University of London students are disrupting Israeli academic Michael Ben-Gad’s lectures as part of a campaign to get him sacked.
This mob must be stopped and future mobs deterred.
Those who are British should be expelled. Those who are not, deported.
This mob must be stopped and future mobs deterred.
Those who are British should be expelled. Those who are not, deported.
The hate-filled campaign against professor Ben-Gad
If I didn’t tell you professor Michael Ben-Gad was an Israeli, you could probably figure it out from his response to a hate-filled campaign to drive him out of his job at City St George’s, University ...
www.spectator.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
University of London students are disrupting Israeli academic Michael Ben-Gad’s lectures as part of a campaign to get him sacked.
This mob must be stopped and future mobs deterred.
Those who are British should be expelled. Those who are not, deported.
This mob must be stopped and future mobs deterred.
Those who are British should be expelled. Those who are not, deported.