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Letter from Lib Dem Chief Whip to David Ward MP
Here is a copy of the letter from the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip suspending David Ward (pictured) from the Lib Dems until 13 September – that is, mostly over the recess and therefore a light...
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An Ominous Turn of the Tap
Guest post by Tom Doran Ominous news via the Daily Mail: A water company has replaced an Israeli-built meter in the home of a customer who objected to the “repression of Palestine”. Caroline and Edmond...
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Blood Libel, 2014 edition
It’s not easy being a liberal Zionist. In debate, our every utterance is attended by a meandering chain of qualifiers, squeezing us through two extremes like a fat man negotiating a rocky crevice: “No,...
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Owen Jones and the Haters of Jews
Owen Jones can rightly be described as a phenomenon. Still not even in his thirties, he has sought to remake the British left and has succeeded to an impressive extent. Without him, it’s doubtful the...
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In Praise of Judgement
Atheists of the fluffy, conciliatory variety will be delighted to hear that Richard Dawkins, scourge of Twitter and bane of believers, has discovered the joys of live-and-let-live. He might, at any...
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In Solidarity
I saw Schindler’s List again over Christmas, for the first time in some years. It’s a flawed movie – exactly how flawed is a subject deserving of its own post – but gets a lot more right than wrong and...
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Staying Alive
Depression Diary, Part 4 (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) I type this from the back seat of our delegation’s minibus, the laptop perched on my rucksack on my knees. I was hoping to have time to write this at...
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God Country
I’m currently in Israel as part of a press delegation sent here by the British pro-Israel think tank BICOM (lovely people, by the way). My first day has been exhausting, and it’s not even over yet; in...
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War and Peace and SodaStream
Yesterday’s post was given over to the latest Depression Diary instalment, so I didn’t get a chance to write about our visit to the SodaStream factory. Yes, that SodaStream factory, the one inside the...
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How Not to Disagree
Those of us on the moderate left have an uneasy relationship with the Guardian. It should be our natural home, a place for woolly liberals to communally wring our hands, and this is indeed the image...
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The Battle of Hastings
To Max Hastings and others who would be critical allies of the Jewish state, I say this: the Jews are not an example, or a lesson, or a tragedy. They do not exist for your moral edification, nor to...
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The Battle of Hastings, part two
Zionism is founded not, as its critics claim, on the embrace of victimhood, but its rejection. Hounded from country to country, expropriated, beaten, humiliated and killed in their thousands and...
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