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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It may have taken until the third episode of the series, but the big news from this week’s installment of Homeland is that the jazz is back.
View ArticleWhy I Am a Zionist Too
I can’t remember when I first came across Tom Doran, but it was less than a year ago. One of the best things about Twitter is that it discovers new writing talent more efficiently than any other...
View ArticleGod 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...
View ArticleWar 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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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