| 1 | Oct 13, '23 | I do think it is extraordinary - and wrong - that although a junior minister has been in touch neither the foreign secretary nor the prime minister has been able to find 20 minutes | 45.1× | 796k | 3.3k | 403 | 55 |
| 2 | Oct 11, '23 | Every so often, but especially so in recent days, I remember that Jewish schools in the United Kingdom have extra security guards as a matter of course and this is considered so no | 35.2× | 621k | 4.9k | 724 | 52 |
| 3 | Jul 9, '25 | Once again, I beseech you: Every single discussion of public sector pay - nurses, doctors, teachers etc - should include the value of public sector pensions. Compensation deferred | 30.3× | 536k | 4.2k | 511 | 124 |
| 4 | Sep 8, '24 | Even by today’s standards there is something jaw-dropping about Police Scotland’s belief it is important that male rapists can self-identify as women & that valuing this can he | 27.7× | 490k | 3.8k | 908 | 100 |
| 5 | Oct 16, '24 | On a pound for pound basis, the "Taylor Swift and her police escort" story is the most tedious piece of nonsense any of us have endured in years. FFS. | 25× | 441k | 3.9k | 369 | 17 |
| 6 | Dec 17, '24 | Au contraire! It is ludicrous to compensate people for their own failure to make appropriate work/pension choices despite being given almost FIFTEEN YEARS notice of changes to the | 20.9× | 368k | 1.7k | 112 | 74 |
| 7 | Feb 3 | Allan Massie, 1938-2026 | 18.8× | 333k | 1.6k | 142 | 71 |
| 8 | Dec 17, '24 | If you receive the state pension, you're on welfare. It is a discretionary payment which may be increased/reduced/removed at any moment. There is no pension pot. You are not receiv | 18.4× | 326k | 2.5k | 172 | 102 |
| 9 | Dec 17, '24 | While we're talking about pension lies. No, the United Kingdom would not pay the state pensions of people living in a newly independent Scotland and this remains the case no matter | 17.9× | 317k | 2.1k | 232 | 95 |
| 10 | Jul 28, '23 | Happy seventh anniversary to one of the world's greatest stories. | 17.4× | 308k | 1.6k | 210 | 51 |
| 11 | Feb 13, '25 | Well, fair's fair, you can see why NHS Fife did not want this tribunal heard in public. | 16.2× | 287k | 5.4k | 477 | 37 |
| 12 | Aug 30, '25 | Column on the glorious spectacle of Nicola Sturgeon arranging her tax affairs to avoid taxes she raised on other, less fortunate, Scots. Tax avoidance is always wicked, it seems, u | 15.6× | 276k | 2.7k | 563 | 93 |
| 13 | Mar 3, '24 | @jk_rowling It’s remarkable how quickly the argument has moved from ‘That would never happen’ to ‘Of course that will happen, what’s the big deal?’ | 15.1× | 267k | 7.9k | 380 | 65 |
| 14 | Jul 22, '25 | Our trade has a real problem when we write stupid and misleading headlines like this. Treating readers as fools is a precursor to having fewer readers. | 14.1× | 249k | 3.2k | 398 | 41 |
| 15 | Jan 9, '24 | So, the evidence for Keir Starmer the Monster: 1. He bought land for his mother to use as a donkey sanctuary. 2. He acted pro bono for people facing execution overseas. Hard to see | 14× | 248k | 3k | 299 | 22 |
| 16 | Oct 11, '23 | Had massacres of this sort occurred in any other country in the world, it is inconceivable that the Scottish parliament would not have responded with a gesture of goodwill. But Isr | 13.7× | 243k | 2.2k | 455 | 27 |
| 17 | Dec 10, '23 | It’s the most glorious time of year again. | 13.6× | 241k | 2.1k | 355 | 122 |
| 18 | Apr 21, '25 | Five days after FWS vs Scottish ministers & far too many people still need to be reminded that the govt position was that quotas for women could be filled by men. How can that | 13.4× | 236k | 3.9k | 660 | 79 |
| 19 | Feb 8, '23 | Very much looking forward to hearing precisely how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine made it much harder to build a road from Perth to Inverness. | 13.2× | 234k | 1.8k | 317 | 14 |
| 20 | May 21, '24 | Times editorial: "It is unconscionable that a rape crisis centre should privilege its own ideological certainties at the expense of the vulnerable people it is supposed to support" | 11× | 194k | 2k | 373 | 41 |
| 21 | Feb 19, '25 | It's too late for politicians such as Anas Sarwar to say they would not have voted for Nicola Sturgeon's gender reforms if they "knew then" what they "know now". They had the chanc | 10.9× | 193k | 3.6k | 552 | 64 |
| 22 | Dec 21, '22 | Professionally: here as a mere observer Personally: here because my wife can’t be. | 10.8× | 191k | 2.5k | 313 | 13 |
| 23 | Jul 24, '25 | Some things are binary. You are either Team Peggie or Team Upton. And most of our politicians chose to be Upton. | 10.4× | 183k | 2.6k | 371 | 82 |
| 24 | Mar 9, '24 | It is interesting, is it not, that these suggestions are always addressed to Ukraine and not, you know, to Russia. Wind your neck in, pope. | 10.3× | 181k | 1.7k | 218 | 17 |
| 25 | May 24, '25 | Column: If biological truth is transphobic, then we’ve lost our minds. (No paywall) | 9.6× | 170k | 3.7k | 712 | 265 |
| 26 | Mar 2, '25 | Am struck by the number of people who are not especially pro-monarchy who nonetheless tonight both recognise and deeply appreciate the significance of this photo. A symbol, yes, an | 9.5× | 168k | 4.2k | 214 | 48 |
| 27 | Feb 28, '25 | They are disgusting people. Utterly without merit or saving grace. And so very, very, very small. Damn Trump and Vance to hell. | 9.3× | 164k | 4.4k | 447 | 28 |
| 28 | Jan 25, '23 | Something which would never happen has, in fact, happened again. | 8.5× | 150k | 2.5k | 477 | 32 |
| 29 | Sep 30, '24 | Not all cultures are equally valid and, deep down, even the people who pretend it’s awful to point this out know it’s true. | 7.9× | 139k | 3.2k | 536 | 95 |
| 30 | Feb 15, '23 | If Scottish politics is a mean and often ugly game, it is partly because Nicola Sturgeon helped make it that way. Her self-serving resignation speech today overlooked that inconven | 7.3× | 130k | 1.7k | 315 | 18 |
| 31 | May 5, '23 | Brilliant ad. | 7.2× | 128k | 1.8k | 170 | 17 |
| 32 | Jun 6, '22 | The ‘Zelensky wants Boris to stay’ stuff - as peddled by Zahawi on Sky now - is utterly contemptible. Utterly loathsome. | 7.1× | 0 | 13k | 1.4k | 24 |
| 33 | Jul 22, '25 | On behalf of everyone with columns to write during the bleak, newsless, summer recess may I once again put on record our thanks to NHS Fife for all they continue to do. | 7.0× | 123k | 3.8k | 363 | 18 |
| 34 | Feb 11, '24 | I’ve heard it suggested - controversially, of course - that even the little womenfolk may think and care about more than one thing at a time. | 6.9× | 122k | 2k | 258 | 17 |
| 35 | May 23, '20 | Dominic Cummings Must Go | 6.7× | 0 | 8.4k | 2.5k | 93 |
| 36 | Jan 29, '23 | Remember: this was neither an accident nor some unfortunate oversight to be corrected belatedly. Putting male-bodied prisoners, including sex offenders, into women’s prisons WAS th | 6.2× | 110k | 2.2k | 526 | 17 |
| 37 | Jan 25, '23 | Ultimately, this is a disagreement between fantasists and realists and it is deplorable to realise that the majority of Scottish parliamentarians are signed-up members of the fanta | 5.8× | 102k | 2k | 435 | 17 |
| 38 | Apr 16, '25 | This. Is. Not. True. | 5.5× | 98k | 3.8k | 546 | 39 |
| 39 | Nov 10, '25 | I was away and offline last week but... come on... the Trump stuff is by far and away the most inconsequential part of this BBC stuff. I suppose that may be why so many senior BBC | 5.4× | 96k | 2.3k | 392 | 40 |
| 40 | Jun 17, '20 | Naively, I had assumed this was photoshopped. | 5.4× | 0 | 9.3k | 855 | 28 |
| 41 | Oct 2, '25 | Wankers cosplaying as revolutionaries. . Plus, of course, a fair sprinkling of Jew-hating scum. | 5.4× | 95k | 2.5k | 324 | 44 |
| 42 | Jul 16, '25 | In a crowded and competitive field, NHS Fife might just be the most incompetent public sector organisation in Scotland. Today’s column on the persecution of Sandro Peggie… 👇👇 | 5.1× | 90k | 1.8k | 340 | 63 |
| 43 | Dec 5, '22 | Probably the funniest complaint ever made about the Royal family. | 5.1× | 0 | 9.3k | 734 | 108 |
| 44 | Jul 14, '18 | Apart from disgust, the dominant emotion when Donald Trump visits your country is sadness. To think the great American republic - and experiment - has been reduced to this. To thin | 4.7× | 0 | 7.9k | 1.3k | 11 |
| 45 | Aug 8, '24 | Well of course they do. It’s the little grey bastards you have to watch out for. | 4.2× | 74k | 2.2k | 236 | 20 |
| 46 | Jun 16, '16 | A day of infamy. | 4.0× | 0 | 2.7k | 2.7k | 0 |
| 47 | Sep 29, '25 | "Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend | 3.8× | 67k | 2.3k | 137 | 29 |
| 48 | May 20, '24 | Of course this should be a resigning matter and failing that the board - albeit, a discredited board - should sack the ERCC CEO. Amazing yet unsurprising that this has not yet happ | 3.8× | 67k | 2.5k | 472 | 21 |
| 49 | Mar 10, '21 | Every so often, and especially if life seems glum, I recommend cheering yourself up by remembering the lovely tale of France is Bacon. | 3.8× | 0 | 5.4k | 1.1k | 244 |
| 50 | Apr 16, '25 | An era of magical thinking comes to an end and vindication is a dish to be enjoyed at any temperature. Three cheers for the ladies of For Women Scotland. | 3.7× | 65k | 2.7k | 404 | 72 |
| 51 | Jun 5, '25 | Oh just fuck off with this bullshit. | 3.2× | 56k | 2.3k | 168 | 7 |
| 52 | Sep 28, '22 | Vote Labour. | 3.0× | 0 | 3.2k | 318 | 7 |
| 53 | Apr 17, '25 | Leaving aside the fact that the most famous GC woman in Britain gives more money to women’s refuges than anyone else, imagine if trans activists had spent more energy on things tra | 2.9× | 50k | 1.9k | 191 | 25 |
| 54 | May 24, '25 | A conversation in the future: ‘What? They put *male murderers* in women’s prisons?’ ‘Yes they did.’ ‘Were they mad?’ ‘Yes. Completely potty.’ | 2.7× | 48k | 1.8k | 305 | 51 |
| 55 | May 1, '25 | Women's sport is not a "sanctuary" for biological men but it is revealing - and useful - to have the claim it is phrased quite so explicitly. | 2.6× | 46k | 2.1k | 257 | 30 |
| 56 | Jan 29, '21 | Anyway, this is the moment for the UK to offer the Republic of Ireland five million doses of vaccine. Not for trolling purposes but because it would be the neighbourly thing to do. | 2.5× | 0 | 4.1k | 446 | 15 |
| 57 | Jun 16, '19 | Shooting myself in the foot is a bad idea. But it is very important to keep the option of shooting myself in the foot on the table. The best way of not shooting myself in the foot | 2.5× | 0 | 3.6k | 900 | 15 |
| 58 | Oct 9, '18 | You don't need to agree with Nicola Sturgeon's policies (or policy preferences) to acknowledge that her speech - and, indeed, her worldview - has a coherence to it that's quite rar | 2.4× | 0 | 3.7k | 809 | 3 |
| 59 | Jul 15, '22 | 1. Tugendhat: Had easiest job. Did it. Doesn't matter 2. Sunak: Only adult in the room probably works better with floating voters than Tory MPs. 3. Badenoch: Nice lines but nowhere | 2.0× | 0 | 3.3k | 366 | 40 |
| 60 | Oct 17, '22 | If I supported Scottish independence I think I'd be wondering why, after eight years as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon still can't produce a detailed - let alone a convincing - ec | 2.0× | 0 | 2.8k | 485 | 14 |
| 61 | Dec 17, '21 | Any dispassionate analysis of the North Shropshire result must start from the fact it is, objectively, Very Funny. | 1.9× | 0 | 3.8k | 284 | 14 |
| 62 | Jul 25, '21 | On the vile (but revealing) hounding of JK Rowling. | 1.9× | 0 | 2.4k | 573 | 95 |
| 63 | Apr 26, '22 | Something which would never happen has happened again. | 1.9× | 0 | 2.7k | 662 | 69 |
| 64 | Jun 23, '17 | In a crowded field, Mrs Leadsom again urges you to consider her Britain's stupidest politician. | 1.9× | 0 | 1.9k | 1k | 1 |
| 65 | Jul 9, '22 | Jaw-dropping stuff from @cazjwheeler | 1.8× | 0 | 1.7k | 756 | 99 |
| 66 | Feb 26, '21 | Extraordinary: Salmond effectively arguing that, if he is correct, Scotland is not actually fit to be independent at present. | 1.8× | 0 | 2.5k | 479 | 7 |
| 67 | Sep 4, '19 | You could probably build a better* government from the 21 Tory rebels than the government we actually have... Ken Clarke - PM Hammond - Treasury Gauke - Home Stewart - FCO Soames - | 1.8× | 0 | 2.9k | 450 | 8 |
| 68 | Sep 27, '16 | It wasn't Trump vs Clinton last night. It was Donald Trump vs Himself. And Trump lost. | 1.8× | 0 | 2.7k | 683 | 0 |
| 69 | Nov 7, '17 | Boris Johnson should resign and Priti Patel should be sacked. | 1.8× | 0 | 2.2k | 804 | 0 |
| 70 | Jun 12, '20 | On JK Rowling & the Terf Wars. | 1.8× | 0 | 2.1k | 576 | 148 |
| 71 | Mar 19, '22 | Grotesque. (And grotesque regardless of how you or anyone else voted in the Brexit referendum.) | 1.7× | 0 | 3.1k | 370 | 5 |
| 72 | Oct 7, '20 | I am afraid I simply do not believe Nicola Sturgeon, a commendably detail-obsessed politician, ‘forgot’ about a meeting at which she was made aware of allegations ‘of a sexual natu | 1.7× | 0 | 2.2k | 640 | 21 |
| 73 | Dec 8, '15 | Remember: December is always the hardest month for homesick lorries. | 1.6× | 0 | 1.4k | 1.1k | 0 |
| 74 | Jun 16, '19 | Then don’t put Johnson on it. | 1.6× | 0 | 3k | 264 | 2 |
| 75 | Dec 14, '21 | A man who rapes a woman does not become a woman himself merely by saying he is one. | 1.5× | 0 | 2.2k | 484 | 59 |
| 76 | Nov 23, '22 | We must save democracy by disregarding the outcome of a democratic referendum held less than a decade ago. | 1.5× | 0 | 1.8k | 254 | 9 |
| 77 | Jun 13, '19 | Johnson vs Corbyn is an unmitigated disaster for the United Kingdom. There is no good outcome possible from that. | 1.5× | 0 | 1.9k | 404 | 1 |
| 78 | Feb 8, '22 | Let's try again. For sake of simplicity, assume UK state pension costs £100bn. UK collects £100bn in taxes to pay £100bn in pensions. Scotland's share = £8bn. After independence, N | 1.5× | 0 | 2k | 378 | 34 |
| 79 | Mar 19, '20 | Companies might pause to think that the way they treat their employees may be remembered when all of this is over. That includes the manner in which they, for whatever reasons, let | 1.5× | 0 | 1.7k | 692 | 11 |
| 80 | Sep 16, '21 | Not quite persuaded that women who have been raped should take time out to ponder their position of relative privilege. Really not entirely persuaded people who run a Rape Crisis C | 1.5× | 0 | 2.1k | 509 | 21 |
| 81 | Mar 7, '20 | 338 Guardian employees appear shocked to discover they actually work for a newspaper. This is a test for Kath Viner. I hope she passes it. And, yes, I stand with Suzanne Moore. via | 1.4× | 0 | 2k | 463 | 28 |
| 82 | Sep 18, '17 | Happiness is cricket on the North West Frontier. | 1.4× | 0 | 1.6k | 668 | 1 |
| 83 | Feb 23, '21 | "The conduct of the first minister must be beyond reproach. The way in which this affair has been handled has unfortunately fallen short of the standards the people of Scotland exp | 1.3× | 0 | 1.8k | 541 | 9 |
| 84 | Sep 25, '21 | Still amazed that at least half a dozen bodies with eyes saw ‘Bodies with vaginas’, @TheLancet, and not a single one of these bodies with a mind paused to insist, ‘Hang on, this is | 1.3× | 0 | 2.3k | 325 | 13 |
| 85 | Feb 18, '21 | Outrageous, I think, for the SNP to use the complainers in the Salmond case as a kind of human shield to protect the first minister against her potential embarrassment. Also hard t | 1.3× | 0 | 1.8k | 500 | 10 |
| 86 | May 25, '20 | The problem - which will not go away - is that the central charge against Cummings (that, at the very least, he ignored the spirit of the lockdown restrictions) is *true*. And it r | 1.3× | 0 | 2k | 319 | 10 |
| 87 | Sep 30, '20 | Because he’s not Donald fucking Trump. Really, there is no need to complicate this election. | 1.2× | 0 | 2.2k | 168 | 3 |
| 88 | Dec 1, '18 | Christmas lights being switched on all over the country; it’s that magical time of year again. | 1.2× | 0 | 1.5k | 527 | 4 |
| 89 | Mar 3, '21 | Baillie vs Sturgeon is excellent. After so much public park hoofing it's nice to see some premier league stuff. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.1k | 187 | 3 |
| 90 | Jul 10, '18 | If you tweet this on Thursday and then resign on Tuesday you do run the risk of seeming an awful wazzock. | 1.1× | 0 | 1.6k | 412 | 2 |
| 91 | Feb 23, '20 | You can cut the tension with a knife. And yet the sense of disappointment is, in the end, all but overwhelming. A missed opportunity. | 1.1× | 0 | 2k | 184 | 20 |
| 92 | Sep 12, '20 | Less of this prattling about the ‘integrity of the United Kingdom’, please, from the government that is a greater threat to that integrity than any other any of us have ever seen. | 1.1× | 0 | 1.6k | 360 | 8 |
| 93 | Sep 24, '19 | Folk shocked by the *unanimous* verdict today might reflect on that. The court comprises judges with very different views and/or philosophies on any number of issues. Which makes t | 1.0× | 0 | 1.5k | 395 | 5 |
| 94 | Nov 28, '21 | There is still time to be on the right side of history. | 1.0× | 0 | 1.6k | 258 | 29 |
| 95 | May 25, '22 | 9 words; 2 lies. | 1.0× | 0 | 1.6k | 334 | 10 |
| 96 | Jul 18, '18 | Tim, with respect, you were chief-of-staff to the leader of the Conservative party, founder of a very influential Tory website, a columnist & also comment editor at The Times e | 1.0× | 0 | 1.6k | 323 | 2 |
| 97 | Mar 21, '19 | Your occasional reminder: the withdrawal agreement is supposed to be the easy bit of Brexit. | 1.0× | 0 | 1.4k | 399 | 0 |
| 98 | Apr 9, '19 | I think we've had enough of the Bridgen & Francois show, people. Fun's over. No need to book them for anything ever again. | 1.0× | 0 | 1.8k | 192 | 1 |
| 99 | Oct 25, '18 | Quite the contrary. Varadkar is here expressing the mainstream, orthodox, Irish view. It has nothing to do with pandering to Sinn Fein. Anyone with even a cursory acquaintance with | 1.0× | 0 | 1.4k | 373 | 3 |
| 100 | Nov 23, '20 | @Ianblackford_MP I can think of several. Doubtless you also have a valid reason for taking it upon yourself to police the actions of private citizens & to then harass them publ | 0.9× | 0 | 1.7k | 119 | 3 |
| 101 | Jun 28, '18 | Oh piss off. | 0.8× | 0 | 1.6k | 95 | 1 |
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