Few constituencies encapsulate the moral and intellectual disintegration of the Labour Party better than Liverpool Riverside. Last week its MP, Louise Ellman, resigned her membership claiming anti-Semitism had “become mainstream in the Labour Party”. When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader in 2015 he inherited four Jewish female MPs. With Ellman’s departure two of them have now […]
Last year, for the first time in my life, I seriously thought about joining a trade union. After ending up on the wrong side of a cordon while covering the annual Al-Quds protest, I had to ask officers to let me through. Unfortunately, as a student freelancer I didn’t have a press card and had […]
Last Thursday I found myself, out of some half-crazed notion of journalistic duty, spending an evening with the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. In case you’re not familiar with their work, VSC are our own home-grown apologists for the diabolical regime of Nicolas Maduro. Oddly enough, the rally took place at the headquarters of the National Education […]
It’s a truism of political extremists the world over that sooner or later they come for the Jews. There’s something about anti-Semitism which appeals to the mind of a fanatic, regardless of whether their hand clasps a red flag, nationalist banner or some holy text. Little unites the far-Right, far-Left and Islamist extremists beyond this […]
Last month Labour announced that Andrew Murray, a member of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) until he joined Labour following Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in 2016, and chief of staff to Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey, would be working in Corbyn’s office part-time as a consultant. Previously he was seconded to Corbyn’s office during the […]
In cities across Iran thousands are taking to the streets to protest a brutal theocratic dictatorship. A regime which executes homosexuals, imprisons political opponents and ordains what women can wear by law. You might assume those protesting could count on the inalienable support of the Western Left, the self-appointed champions of political freedom and minority […]
