3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (161+ words) “I don’t agree with the Chief Rabbi.” — BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) September 9, 2026 Red Ed Miliband graced the airwaves this morning to inform the Chief Rabbi that he is wrong about the impact of UK sanctions on Israeli settlements. Sir Ephraim Mirvis…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (669+ words) What should the British government do about the Muslim Brotherhood? This question has confounded policy-makers for decades and was brought to the fore last month when the United States sanctioned, for the first time, a London-based Muslim Brotherhood leader. Announcing…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (541+ words) When The Spectator asked me whether I would write an essay on ‘Why we need to strengthen the West’, I was delighted – and bemused. Why is this even up for debate? That we must explain and justify ‘the West’ at…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (231+ words) Such bellicose sentiment is wholly consistent with the worldview of the idealistic, progressive left Yet such charmingly naïve sentiments seems to jar with Green Party rhetoric in regard to Israel and the Jews. When it comes to this matter, their…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (498+ words) The Spectator Australia The Green plot for a free speech crackdown If Britain is to avoid the convulsion that afflicted America after the death of George Floyd, measures like those being pursued by the Greens should be taken seriously Published…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1025+ words) The Iran crisis has exposed Britain’s strategic paralysis The Spectator Australia The Iran crisis has exposed Britain’s strategic paralysis I have often joked that in the unlikely event that Iran launched a direct, full-scale attack on Europe, Foreign Office officials…...

4+ week, 23+ hour ago   (721+ words) Before the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement turned identity politics from a niche American slogan into a governing cultural logic. What began as a claim to have ‘woken’ to inequality and the inadequacies of liberal democracy quickly…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (954+ words) The Spectator Australia When does killing the enemy become murder? When is extrajudicial killing just war by other means, and when does it become a state-sponsored act of terror? ‘We were not terrorists but fighters for freedom who fought with…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (215+ words) We have suffered a great deal from the space and time we have to indulge in luxury beliefs Yet the pressing urge to de-twin from Haifa dominated the first full Hackney Council meeting. Councillor Sam Mathys insisted that the International…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) Prime Ministers usually wait until they have been in office a little while before issuing apologies. Andy Burnham made one before he even got to Downing Street – about Gaza. But whatever he’s planning, it won’t be enough to solve Labour’s…...