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The Chibok schoolgirls story caught on, and in short order almost every celebrity in the world got on board. It cohered around the hashtag ‘Bring Back Our Girls’.

As their country unites in the face of terrorist evil, ours is exposing a nasty and divided underbelly

At one hour’s notice the IDF yesterday morning gave permission for a small number of journalists to go into Gaza with them to see the full scale of the war that Israel is waging against the terrorists of Hamas.

The world’s eyes are on the Shifa hospital in Gaza, and yesterday I got the closest any Western journalist has yet gotten to it.

After surviving the worst of WWI in the trenches, Siegfried Sassoon wrote a poem to celebrate its glorious end.

The cleverer young people want to live lives of hope, not demanding solutions, but finding them.

What would it take for the complacent commentariat to finally wake up to this threat to Britain’s Jews

It is the nature of the news cycle that huge things get passed over. But what happened just over a month ago in Israel should not be passed over. The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear.

The UK is arguably not just flush with Qatari cash, but deeply, widely compromised by it. Naturally Qatar’s representatives put on a diplomatic non-terrorist-related front when they speak in London.

If you aren’t Jewish, then imagine for a moment that you are. And the fact that your people had just suffered the worst mass murder since the Holocaust.

Decades of uncontrolled migration have meant there is no difference between home and abroad any more. How can anyone look at demonstrations across our cities — especially our capital — and think our country is what it once was?

A Thomas Hardy poem still brings chills to the spine more than a century after its publication.