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Netanyahu and Gaza – How Should Britain Respond?
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The Gaza Genocide has become an element in the long-planned continuation of the Greater Israel project, but it was initially an experiment. For Netanyahu, it was a test of the resolve of the western powers to uphold decades-old ideas about human rights and the ‘rules of war’ established after WWII, which were designed to protect civilians and outlaw the annexation of land occupied during hostilities. He must have been surprised when there was so little response when he started pushing the envelope, but as time went on it became apparent that with active American encouragement, and a more passive kind…
The Commissioner Who Lost His Neutrality…
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There is a principle at the heart of British policing so fundamental that it predates the modern democratic state: the constable, whatever their rank, enforces the law impartially and takes no political sides. It is this principle that distinguishes a police service from a political instrument. It is also the principle that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has, by any honest assessment, repeatedly and seriously compromised. The evidence is not a matter of interpretation. It is a pattern of documented public statements, selective enforcement decisions, and a conspicuous failure to fulfil a clear legal duty, one that sits in…
The Silence They Cannot Buy: Iran, Antisemitism and the Weaponisation of Fear
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Something has gone badly wrong with British political discourse, and the elections on Thursday will be the first formal reckoning with it. Three threads run through the disorder, and they share a single pattern: a political and media establishment using manufactured crises, convenient attributions, and the deliberate conflation of dissent with hatred to avoid accountability for its own failures. The threads are distinct. The logic connecting them is not. The boy who cried wolf (the wolf being Iran) When a seventeen-year-old lad is found with a petrol can after ambulances have been torched, and when a man with evident and…
