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Football’s shameful silence on Israel’s tragedy
Few top-flight football matches these days kick off without an expression of solidarity with a cause or condolence. Along with…
Labour is already tearing itself apart. How would it cope in government?
Keir Starmer’s chances of becoming the UK’s next prime minister seem to be improving by the day. From a huge win…
The kids are running the classroom
The Democratic Party is in a state of rhetorical paralysis. This weekend, as Palestinian terrorists streamed across the Israeli border,…
RFK goes it alone in Philadelphia
Had you blindfolded me yesterday morning, led me to the front lawn of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, removed…
Keir Starmer looks ready for an election
The stage invasion at the start of Keir Starmer’s speech was a total failure for the protestor who carried it…
For too long, the UN has been gripped by Israelophobia
It is something of an understatement to say that there has been no shortage of shocking posts on social media…
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…
Qatar, Hamas and the West’s shameful silence
The political class in France have rounded on Jean-Luc Mélenchon for his failure to condemn Hamas’s attack against Israel. The…
Starmer’s house-building plan could prove a hit with young voters
The biggest hinderance for the Conservatives is that they have nothing to offer young voters. The Labour party, however, just might.…
What Britain should do about Hamas
London is, at last, beaming Israeli flags onto its most recognisable buildings. This is an improvement on how some of…
Is the IMF right to be this pessimistic about the UK economy?
The International Monetary fund has published its biannual World Economic Outlook report – and it’s more bad news for the UK. While…
London’s ‘Free Palestine’ protest descended into farce
Central London succumbed last night to a mob of protestors celebrating the outrages perpetrated by Hamas on Saturday. That was…
The many, many faces of Keir Starmer
Is nomenclature destiny? If Keir Starmer had not been named for Keir Hardie, the founding father of the Labour party,…
‘I just want to live’: A survivor’s account of the desert rave massacre
When I arrived at the all-night rave near the border with Gaza the party was in full swing. It was…
How Elon Musk killed Twitter/ X
Twitter was a newswire. That, at least at first, was the point of it. Something that came with all the…
A storm is brewing in the Senate, too
After the US House stole the spotlight last week, sources on the Hill say a similar, yet more “behind-closed-doors” brouhaha…
Netanyahu: ‘What we will do to our enemies will echo for generations’
Just a week ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was urging Israelis to take a break. He said citizens should ‘go for a…
British anti-Semites are delighted by the attack on Israel
You might think the massacre of Jewish civilians will stop anti-Jewish hatred in Britain. Or, if that is too much…
Labour’s grand plan? More borrowing
Rachel Reeves’s speech at Labour party conference was an attempt to show how the party’s economic strategy differs from the…
How Big Brother lost touch with reality
Big Brother is back – again. The show was axed by Channel 5 in 2018 but ITV has dragged it…
Israelis are furious at Benjamin Netanyahu
Israelis are livid. Their fury is directed not only at Hamas for massacring over 700 people, wounding thousands and abducting…
Why are Jews being blamed for Hamas’s attack on Israel?
‘Victim blaming’ is one of the sins that is most deplored by the social justice movement. When it comes to…
A fairytale wedding in Mallorca
“You are Kevin?” “Pardon?” Embarking on a solo week driving around Mallorca, then losing my drivers license in transit? Not…
The death of the two-state solution
Hamas has achieved something that no Arab army has done since the 1948 war: captured several Israeli localities and held…
Five of the worst responses to the Hamas attacks on Israel
Tragedies are often the moment when statesmen are at their best. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen from the response to yesterday’s…
