The disgusting attempt to silence Joey Barton
I have a question. What’s more ‘dangerous’ and ‘disgusting’ – a footballer sounding off on social media or a government…
Harvard’s Claudine Gay isn’t a victim of racism
A month ago, Claudine Gay of Harvard University was obsessed with putting things into context. Asked at that now infamous…
Why don’t anti-racists care about anti-Semitism?
Where have all the anti-racists gone? You couldn’t move for anti-racists in recent years. They thundered from their newspaper pulpits…
Is identity politics to blame for the rise of anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is surging among the young. It is now positively hip to view Jews as ‘problematic’. Consider the recent Harvard/Harris…
Why can’t some Londoners tolerate posters of kidnapped Israelis?
What is it about those images of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas that so infuriates certain sections of the public? Since…
The chilling link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
Isn’t it remarkable how similar anti-Zionism is to anti-Semitism? The latest proof of an intimate link between these two ideologies…
What Palestine supporters could learn from the anti-Semitism march
Imagine having to be reminded not to be racist. Imagine if officialdom itself felt it necessary to whisper in your…
Will Zarah Sultana quit Labour if it is ‘institutionally racist’?
Anyone who’s ever had a conversation with a Corbynista will know it’s impossible to talk to these people about anti-Semitism.…
Jess Phillips and the shame of Labour’s ceasefire rebels
I can’t decide if last night’s Labour revolt was an act of pointless narcissism or sinister appeasement. Maybe it was…
The real far-right threat
There was a horrendous far-right gathering in London yesterday. Racist cries cut through the air like a knife. One attendee…
When will those ‘marching for Palestine’ do the right thing?
Those of us who believe in freedom of expression have felt mighty lonely this week. We have watched as, one…
Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas?
One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s…
Hamas’s victim complex
‘We are the victims… therefore nobody should blame us for the things we do.’ Who do you think said this?…
Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob and the truth about Palestinian ‘solidarity’
So now we know what a ‘globalised intifada’ might look like. That’s what people chanted for on the streets of…
The shameful desecration of Israel’s kidnapped children
We have seen many grim images over the past two weeks. Images of the apocalyptic, Isis-style violence visited upon the…
The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot
I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications…
Do Jewish Lives Matter too?
For more than a year, English footballers took the knee in solidarity with a petty criminal who was murdered by…
Why aren’t ‘anti-fascists’ condemning the tide of anti-Semitism?
I have a question about the events of the past few days: where is Antifa? Where are those self-styled anti-fascists…
The shameful gloating at Israel
Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d…
The chilling calls to shut down GB News
Tyranny is a sneaky thing. It often scurries in on the back of controversy. It is often when people are…
Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot
Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak…
YouTube is wrong to rush to judgement on Russell Brand
It is often on the back of public fury that dangerous new precedents are set. Authoritarianism can sneak in when…
Róisín Murphy and the limits of the new authoritarianism
Has cancel culture finally met its match? Have the new blacklisters who hasten to erase anyone who gives voice to…
The Guardian’s shameful Roisin Murphy review
Of all the smug, bitter things the Guardian has published over the years, its review of Róisín Murphy’s new album…
The sinister online mobbing of Róisín Murphy
In the past they would put a witches’ bridle on women who yapped too much. Any woman judged to be…
