When Arthur James Balfour wrote his famous letter of 2 November, 1917, promising, ‘His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people… it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,’ it […]
In it’s fixture with Gary Lineker, the BBC seems to be allowing the ex-footballer to referee his own game. Ever since fellow BBC sports staff walked out of Match of the Day in support of the presenter last March following his tweet saying the government’s language over immigration was like ‘1930s Germany’, Linker has held […]
It had to be the subject of Israel and Gaza which would cause Keir Starmer the biggest rebellion of his leadership. More than 60 Labour MPs have called for a ceasefire and a raft of councillors have resigned. There are those on the left who smell blood, desperate for any opportunity to undermine Starmer’s leadership […]
The Times Radio journalist stumbled as she pondered the right way to describe Hamas operatives who had slaughtered 250 teenagers at a rave, kidnapped grandparents with dementia and slaughtered entire families. Finally Chloe Tilley came up with ‘bravery’ before marvelling at the ‘incredible ability’ of Hamas to ‘go for Israel in such a way that […]
Eighteen months since the sculpture of Prospero and Ariel by the artist Eric Gill outside the BBC’s iconic Broadcasting House was attacked, it is still encased in scaffolding. A protestor pounded the 1930s sculpture with a hammer, angry that outside what is meant to be the bastion of British values was a piece of art […]
Never forget that it was Keir Starmer who claimed it was ‘not right’ to say only women had a cervix, after death threats left his own MP, Rosie Duffield, too frightened to go to Labour conference. Never forget that when Labour women were drummed out of the party for objecting to someone born male becoming […]
Reading Baroness Casey’s report this week into the genuinely heinous failings of the Metropolitan Police feels a bit like watching Rome burn. How are the public supposed to have any confidence in the forces of law and order, if its ranks include racists, misogynists and even rapists and murderers? It all feels so corrupt, so […]
Occasionally something will happen to remind me of the darkness of December 2019. I am not a hysterical person, but in the run up to that month’s general election I was frightened enough to have told my family that if Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, I wasn’t sure whether Jews like us would be safe […]
One of the interesting outcomes of the 2020 Abraham Accords is that this year the United Arab Emirates announced it was going to start teaching its children about the Holocaust. Until now, many children in the Arab world have not been taught about the genocide which so shames the West, mainly because it involves Jews […]
The National Union of Students (NUS) like so many virtue signalling organisations, vows to be a place of tolerance and anti-racism – except if you are Jewish. Amid the antisemitic incidents uncovered in yet another inquiry (there have been eight reports since 2005, such is the scale of the issue and the union’s apparent inability to […]
Remember those halcyon days before social media when we didn’t know what our favourite ice cream brand thought of immigration? When banks didn’t tell us to get accounts elsewhere if we didn’t agree with them on the use of pronoun badges? When shaving gel companies didn’t wade in on the question of toxic masculinity? Simply […]
As the daughter of a father who wanted boys, I’d often kick about with a football in the garden. I had little idea of what I was doing – he had little idea about how to teach me. I still can’t even kick a ball properly; there was no chance to learn. I was born […]
When someone has the word doctor in front of their name, we tend to trust their diagnosis; we know they’ve studied hard to win that title, they are bright, caring and have a modicum of common sense. Or, at least, they should have. But doctors can be as prone to hysteria and delusional group-think as […]
We need to talk about perverts. I know we don’t want to – even uttering the word seems somehow rude, as if thinking about them is somehow making us party to their depraved behaviour. But unless we do, women will never be safe. There are some who would like to pretend these men (they are […]
It sounds groovy in Corbynland doesn’t it? The trains are cheap and run on time because they are publicly owned. Everyone has free WiFi, even if computer screens seem permanently frozen on that marvellous moment at Glastonbury when thousands sang, ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’. There are no homeless people; they are now living in Buckingham Palace […]
In 2017, shortly after Donald Trump was elected, former President Barack Obama expanded on Thomas Jefferson’s famous edict about ‘deserving’ the government we get. ‘People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don’t work but I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve,’ he said. ‘And if you don’t vote and you […]
I know Labour still has an antisemitism problem because I experienced it on my doorstep two weeks ago. An activist from the party tried to convince me that this issue hadn’t actually existed; it must have been all in my head. This denial is, in itself, a form of antisemitism, according to the Equality and […]
No one I’ve asked is quite sure how the word ‘peak’ – a noun usually meaning the top or the highest point of an object like a mountain – came to also denote a verb signalling the time when someone realises that Stonewall-esque extreme trans ideology is a denial of reality. For some the word […]
The Keir Starmer sigh, denoting ‘I-can’t-believe-you-are-asking-this-again-I-thought-better-of-you’, is becoming almost as ubiquitous as the Jeremy Corbyn eye roll. Journalists are annoying when they ask questions you don’t want them to ask. And they are particularly annoying when they keep asking a question you refuse to answer. Today it was the turn of Nick Ferrari on LBC. […]
When women said they were concerned about the danger of allowing males into single sex spaces in places like prisons and hospitals, they were demonised by the holier-than-thou crowd as ‘bigots’ and ‘transphobes’. When women said that allowing males into female sport would be unfair, some laughed and said they needed be ‘kinder’. When women […]
