Brownshirts in blazers? The rise of UKIP
With its 16% of the vote in the June Euro-elections the UK Independence Party, previously dismissed as a group of…
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Transphobia, free speech and the left
Earlier this month an online Stand Up For Labour Party Democracy rally was organised to build a campaign in solidarity…
Seymour Hersh and massacres — the degeneration of a respected journalist
The celebrated investigative journalist Seymour Hersh appeared on the BBC Daily Politics show on Tuesday, mainly to plug his recently…
Who is behind the complaints about Labour antisemitism?
For those of us who have closely followed the supposed crisis of antisemitism in the Labour Party over the past…
Has the Labour left subjected Luciana Berger to hatespeak and death threats?
Matt Carr recently published an excellent article (“Are you or have you ever been an antisemite?”) on his Infernal Machine…
‘Is Saudi Arabia funding ISIS?’ Fact checking FactCheck
Channel 4’s FactCheck is usually a good source of objective information on controversial issues. So it’s disappointing that a recent article by…
The failings of Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein has always been a loose cannon. His sometimes insightful political and historical analysis is invariably undermined by a…
Who funded Keir Starmer’s campaign?
During his successful campaign to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer was repeatedly challenged to reveal the…
Antisemitism, the Brick Lane mural and the stitch-up of Jeremy Corbyn
Jonathan Cook recently posted an interesting article in which he presented a clearly argued response to Naomi Wolf on the…
Boris Johnson and Islamophobia
Boris Johnson’s recent Telegraph article, in which he mocked niqab-wearing women by describing them as looking like letter boxes or…