Interesting from Justin Webb in the Sunday Times, from Washington, on the first few days of hectic action from Trump:. The point everyone made after the immediate fun was that the …

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea, shown on BBC4 last night, was a superb piece of documentary film-making.The journey of the family from the border Yalu river across China …

This from Andrew Sullivan reinforces the point made by Justin Webb yesterday about the sense of exhilaration in the US now after the moribund Biden years, and making America normal again. …

2025年1月24日 · Here we go. Trump prepares to sell out Ukraine:. President Donald Trump claimed in part two of a televised interview that the nearly three-year-old war between Russia …

Howard Jacobson at the JC on remembering Auschwitz:. I don’t expect everybody to agree that the only real subject of art since 1945 has been the genocide – I mean the actual genocide of …

2024年11月17日 · Julie Bindel on her experience of a police visit:. It was a Sunday lunchtime around 1pm when I received a knock on the door. I was with my family and friends, preparing …

On Nov. 29 1947, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent Jewish state of Israel. One of the biggest and lesser known stories of Nov 29 is …

2024年11月21日 · I've just finished Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism.It's not much over 100 pages, so an easy day's read. As he notes, it started out with academics in the US, Australia, …

2024年9月27日 · Remember the Abraham Accords? - when it seemed that, at last, those Arab states alarmed by the rise of Iran and its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, realised that …

2024年8月16日 · There's a long and depressing read from George Chesterton in the Telegraph today on the Jewish experience here since the Hamas pogrom - ‘Friends no longer speak to …