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A demonstration in London, with people holding banners with "Free Palestine" type slogans. Some new blocks of flats or offices are visible in the background.

I was there (at the demonstration)

Yesterday I went to my first Palestine demo in London since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza following the 7th October Hamas raids. The past week, or more, there has been a...

“The Arabs of the land”

The other day I came across a long tweet ‘explaining’ why there are still refugee camps in Gaza and other Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab countries years after the wars that made them refugees....

Why Labour are losing Muslims

Since the genocide in Gaza began in the aftermath of the 7th October attacks, politicians on both sides of the house in both the US and UK — Tories, Labour, Republicans and Democrats —...

Nick Timothy itching for a fight

In yesterday’s (Monday’s) Daily Telegraph, there was an opinion piece by Nick Timothy, former chief of staff at 10 Downing Street when Theresa May was PM, giving a caricature of the pro-Palestinian protests in...

The condemnation game

Over the past three weeks since the Hamas assault on southern Israel, the death toll of which is assumed to be 1,400, all caused by Hamas, both claims very heavily disputed, the Israeli armed...

The spectre of genocide

In the two weeks since the 7th October Hamas raid in southern Israel, the government of Israel has launched a bombing campaign against Gaza (supposedly against Hamas, but targeting civilian buildings including hospitals and...

Hamas: Terrorists versus militants

Today it was reported that four of the UK’s most senior lawyers had complained to Ofcom, the British media regulator, had breached its code of impartiality by refusing to use the word ‘terrorist’ in...

Racism on Today

This morning I heard a shocking racist rant from an Israeli whose family were (allegedly) among those taken hostage by Hamas in last week’s raid on communities in the Gaza border region, on the...

Sunak’s doughnut strategy

It’s party conference season and last week it was the Tory party’s turn, and this is likely to be their last before the next general election. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, unveiled a sharp...

How often do we think of the Roman empire?

Last week or the week before, a meme went around claiming that women don’t realise how often men think of the Roman empire, which must be at least once a day, and various people...

The logo of Holderness Academy, a shield with H and A in top left and bottom right corners respectively, a map of the Humber estuary and Humberside coastline in the top right corner, and a leaf in the bottom left.

Uniforms and punishments for poverty

Last week and the week before, there was another wave of news stories, as we have come to expect in early September, of children being punished in one way or another, usually by being...

The fork-tongued “devil dog” defenders

Last weekend a video circulated of a terrier dog attacking people in a busy street in Birmingham, one of the victims being a young girl. The dog was initially believed to be an American...

The ‘elitism’ of mere thought

Last week Matt Goodwin published an article on his Substack (most of it paid-for, which I refuse to do, but you can read the first few paragraphs free) claiming that the controversy over the...

I nearly got scammed

The other day I was working for a printing company delivering their products in north London, and I pulled over on a road outside Enfield and took a fifteen-minute break to drink my coffee....

Let’s de-toll the M6 Toll

In the wake of yesterday’s court ruling that the extension of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the outer suburbs can go ahead in the face of opposition from Conservative-controlled outer London borough...

Labour should have won Uxbridge

Yesterday three by-elections were held to replace three Tory MPs, including the former prime minister Boris Johnson, who resigned last month for reasons including the ‘partygate’ scandal (involving politicians who held parties while everyone...