This article was originally published on politcs.co.uk on May 17th, 2019. Nigel Farage’s risible claims of BBC bias this week were remarkable not so much for his dismissal of any public scrutiny ahead of the EU elections, but for the way he was able to…
This article was first published in Quilliam Journal on May 3rd, 2019. These are the times that try men’s patience. Sample the following from an email sent by the National Union of Journalists to their members about an upcoming event: “Lyra McKee was murdered doing…
As Joseph Biden warmly caresses his way into the race for the Democratic candidacy (big surprise, there), 2020-watchers have another pressing question to address: Are Jews white? I’m prompted to ask not by yet another shooting at a US synagogue (this time in San Diego),…
This article was originally published on politcs.co.uk on February 12th, 2019. The row over a ‘no-confidence’ vote on Luciana Berger last week was just the latest sordid episode in the Labour party’s identity crisis. What set this one apart was the context, with several Labour…
It looks as if Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is a “moderniser” after all, having apparently been influenced less by Machiavelli than by Martin Scorsese. Whatever the truth of the gruesome “bone saw” rumours, it’s a moral certainty that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was…
This article was originally published on politcs.co.uk on October 5th, 2018. According to the 1987 film The Lost Boys, a vampire may only enter your home if you invite them in. Two august institutions nearly failed that test recently, when the Guardian‘s offices in London…
In the 1962 film The Music Man, con artist Harold Hill dupes and fleeces River City, Iowa, using only his charm and wit. Jeremy Corbyn has managed to do the same to the Labour Party with neither. Corbyn’s total mastery of the party is clear…
It’s easy to laugh at the pathetic cover story offered by Russian heavies Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov for why they were in Salisbury at exactly the same time a former Russian spy was being poisoned with a deadly nerve agent. In Britain, their interview…
The ongoing fracas over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party – currently swirling around its efforts to redefine the disease – continues to have a definite element of the surreal. While column inches and Twitter threads are devoted to ever-more sophisticated discussions about anti-Semitism’s Left-wing and…
This article was originally published on politcs.co.uk on February 14th, 2018. The main point of interest in the Telegraph‘s recent attack on philanthropist George Soros is not whether its authors are antisemitic, but what it tells us about the growth of the paranoid style in…