June 5, 2016

Last year Kareem was alive, but in a wheelchair. As he had been since the 2006 attacks by Israel on Gaza. He was from Gaza.  Medical […]
January 4, 2016

Child Sexual Abuse, The Whole Truth

Child Sexual Abuse: The Whole Truth Once upon a time, Peter Ball was the seemingly unimpeachable bishop of Lewes and Gloucester. In the eighties and early […]
January 4, 2016

Racism, Unspoken And Getting Worse

  Sorry if this column makes some of you miserable or cross on the first Monday after the Christmas break. I feel weary and dejected too […]
January 4, 2016

Our Poor Wretched Strivers

  The Tory MP, Lucy Allan, has been tied to the stake and burnt by online flamethrowers after some of her aides accused her of being […]
May 20, 2015

Not All Tories Are Bastards

Five years. Five years of Tory hubris and callous, divisive policies. After this government is done, Thatcherism will seem compassionate and benevolent. We social democrats are […]
May 20, 2015

The Many Faces of Liberalism

Liberal Values? Nick Clegg was grief-stricken as he delivered his valedictory statement. It was both personal and burningly political. His leadership had been bullwhipped, the party […]
May 20, 2015

British Jews Who Support Palestinians

British Jews and Israel Benjamin Netanyahu won a fourth term in office. He won ‘because he ran as a bigot. ’ writes columnist Joe Klein in […]
May 18, 2015

Hounded by Stupids

There is a group of white men who accuses me of wishing the extinction of white men. They have pursued me with this rubbish for years […]
January 19, 2015

Exotic England

England may be a small country on a small island, but its inhabitants have always had a boundless curiosity about the world beyond their shoreline.