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The increasing fear felt by Britain’s Jews

If you walked down the Strand in London on Tuesday this week you would have been greeted by hundreds of people outside King’s College London. The gathering was organised by students from KCL, the London School of Economics and University College London. They chanted ‘Intifada, intifada’ and ‘Long live the intifada’.

The mainstreaming of leftist violence

There it was. The same people who had been telling Americans for the past decade that ‘silence’ in the face of violence is ‘complicity,’

The War Israel Won—and the One the West Is Losing

Two years after October 7, Israel has defeated its enemies. The West is still surrendering to them.

Conservatives, be careful about wishing for a Zohran Mamdani win

Be careful what you wish for. I am referring to some Republicans who are starting to see a silver lining in the socialist’s mayoral run.

The Murray Test for TV drama

Slow Horses has an outstanding cast. But its plotlines and characters have tended to follow all the modern commandments.

Democrats are driving young men to kill ‘Nazis’ who aren’t Nazis

If words do have an effect, then why are so many people in positions of power so incredibly careless with the words they use?

First they came for the Jews…

It was moving to watch Keir Starmer announce this week, from a corridor in Downing Street, that his government has decided to recognise a state of Palestine. Starmer took this bold action at the same time as his French, Canadian and Australian counterparts.

Living in the Gray Zone of Political Violence

The American Left has a long history of celebrating or excusing purveyors of mayhem.

Violent, lawless Antifa forces deserve to be labeled terrorists

Sometimes good can come out of tragedy. So it seems that in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk this country might finally come to terms with certain violent extremist groups in our midst…

The political resurrection of Christianity

There is a passage in Milan Kundera’s novelisitic essay ‘Testaments Betrayed’ where he writes about the nature of history. Man walks in a fog, Kundera observes. He stumbles along a path and creates the path as he walks it. When he looks back, he can see the path, he may see the man, but he […]

Charlie Kirk’s death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game

Charlie Kirk died doing what he did best — talking with, debating and encouraging his fellow Americans.

Beware the restless, shifty liars

I have only been to Alexandria once, some years ago, when Hosni Mubarak was still in power, but it struck me as a sad city. Of course the library was not the library. The lighthouse was not the lighthouse. The city was not the city.