From Elsewhere: I’m afraid this person is right. You cannot have peace or live in peace with those who want you dead.
Like many others in the West I’ve looked at the situation in the Middle East and prayed for peace. Like many other Jews I’ve…
Two anniversaries, two acts of horror, one accursed cause behind both
Yesterday was the anniversary of two horrific attacks on Britons. One was a mass casualty attack on a pop concert and the other the…
A good man gone too soon
I was devastated to hear of the death of the journalist and political activist Patrick O’Flynn. I’d been reading his social media posts for…
An expected bad result
When Lucy Connolly had her appeal last week against her 31 month gaol sentence for an injudicious but hastily removed tweet in the wake…
History does not repeat it self but sometimes it rhymes
A couple of small-ish fires in a posh London street shouldn’t lead to a potential political scandal involving the Prime Minister of the United…
The Reformquake
It’s fair to say that the recent elections in some English local councils might turn out to be politically significant. The massive gains by…
Is Britain’s future going to be similar to Lebanon’s in the late 1970’s?
I’ve lived through an awful lot of British politics in my life, from the years when the trade union barons could, with impunity, switch…
The ‘religion of peace’ has been being un-peaceful yet again.
Terrible news has come out of India. A group of tourists, mostly Indian citizens but including a few foreign visitors to Pahalgam, a picturesque…
Yom HaShoah
Today, until sunset tonight is Yom HaShoah, the day that Jews throughout the world remember the Holocaust. In the UK it is one of…
Happy St George’s Day
I know St George’s Day is not a Bank Holiday in England but to all my English friends and readers have a lovely St George’s…
