Labour MSP charged over child sex abuse images
Scottish Labour MSP Colin Smyth has been arrested and charged in connection with the possession of indecent images. The 52-year-old…
White House joins TikTok – despite US ban looming
To the Land of the Free, where Donald Trump’s administration has been busy, er, setting up a TikTok account. The…
Ex-Scottish Labour councillor joins Reform UK
Well, well, well. The Scottish Tories have lost a number of councillors to Nigel Farage’s ranks and now Labour appears…
Listen: Labour minister’s car crash asylum hotel interview
Dear oh dear. As Steerpike wrote on Tuesday afternoon, asylum seekers will be removed from the Bell Hotel in Essex…
Migrants to be removed from Epping hotel after council wins injunction
Asylum seekers will be removed from the Bell Hotel in Essex after Epping Forest district council was granted a temporary…
Poll: children’s exposure to porn higher after Online Safety Act
Well, well, well. According to research by the children’s commissioner for England, children’s exposure to pornography has increased since the…
Scottish Labour faces councillor crisis as Reform eyes up seats
It’s not a good time to be in Scottish Labour. With nine months to go until the 2026 Holyrood election,…
Revealed: Mental health claims see Foreign Office absences soar
Back to the UK’s bloated civil service. As if the government didn’t have enough on its plate trying to slash…
Sally Rooney to use BBC royalties to support Palestine Action
The UK government’s proscription of campaign group Palestine Action saw over more than 500 protestors arrested this month – the…
BBC admits Huw Edwards hasn’t returned six-figure sum
Now the beleaguered BBC is facing fury from its own staff – after it emerged that Huw Edwards has not…
Tories accuse Sturgeon of breaking ministerial code over indyref2
The SNP’s former Dear Leader Nicola Sturgeon released her memoir this week – but it has not quite had the…
Defence Secretary blasts Farage as ‘Putin apologist’
Ding ding ding! John Healey was pulling no punches this morning as he took aim at Reform UK on the…
The National’s latest journalistic mishap
Well, well, well. Back to Scotland’s self-identifying ‘newspaper’, which has planted itself at the centre of a row over the…
Portcullis House costs through the roof
‘Smashing Westminster’s glass ceiling’ is generally hailed as a good thing – except when it is the taxpayer left holding…
NHS Fife admits it broke the law over single-sex changing room
Well, well, well. Scottish health board NHS Fife has admitted to the UK’s equalities watchdog that it was in breach…
Lammy refers himself to watchdog over Vance fishing trip
Dear oh dear. Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with US Vice President JD Vance at the weekend to discuss the…
Ian Blackford refuses to rule out Holyrood bid
Well, well, well. After Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes announced she was stepping down at next year’s Scottish parliament election,…
Top five howlers from Sturgeon’s memoir
Oh dear. Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly was always going to have its detractors, given how divisive a figure the SNP’s…
Who’s on JD Vance’s Cotswolds guest list?
Well, well, well. The US Vice President has taken a family trip to the UK this summer, to enjoy a…
Did Thought for the Day call Jenrick xenophobic?
To the Beeb, which these days is better at making news headlines than creating them. On Radio 4’s Thought of…
Top five lowlights from Sturgeon’s memoir
They say good things come to those who wait, but Steerpike will let readers be the judge of that when…
Sturgeon admit responsibility for loss of ‘rationality’ in trans debate
Oh dear. If Scotland’s former Dear Leader thought she could have an interview about her legacy that didn’t touch on…
What will Hermer do with Palestine Action protestors?
To Lord Hermer, Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial Attorney General. It transpires that the British barrister will be given the final…
George Galloway to stand in Holyrood election
What comes around goes around. After a short stint in Westminster after he won the Rochdale by-election in February 2024,…
Ex-Reform MP mistakes rowers for migrants
As the issue of immigration continues to assert itself as one of the top concerns facing the country, Brits are…
