4+ day, 9+ 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (448+ words) Of all the inane – not to say stupid – comments by Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, his remark about US and Israeli action against Iran must be at the top. ‘This is not our war,’ he said. ‘We will not…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (887+ words) Finally – an authoritative, stimulating history of the modern Middle East The Spectator Australia Finally – an authoritative, stimulating history of the modern Middle East Ranging from Sudan to Azerbaijan, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s balanced account provides us with the necessary background to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (188+ words) The current troubled and glacial diplomatic process between Israel, the US, its ‘Board of Peace’ and the de facto Hamas authority in Gaza is a derivative of a fact which is difficult to swallow for Israelis: namely, that despite two…...

3+ week, 4+ 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…...

4+ week, 12+ hour 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…...

1+ mon, 11+ hour ago   (658+ words) On his very first day as Colombia’s new President, Abelardo de la Espriella received a dramatic house-warming gift: a billion dollars, courtesy of Donald Trump. Three days later, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the country – but correlation is not causation. The…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (986+ words) The Spectator Australia Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe The images of thousands of Moroccans pouring across…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (419+ words) As is so often the case when it comes to coverage of Israel and the Middle East, much of the reporting of Israel’s rejection of the Donald Trump-backed ‘roadmap’ to peace in Gaza misses the point. Benjamin Netanyahu is far…...