Calling a terrorist a terrorist
Last night, after a suspected Islamist fanatic gunned down two Swedish football fans in Brussels to ‘avenge Muslims’, the BBC…
Hamas is not long for this world
There was long been a swell of sympathy for Hamas in the West. A certain leader of the opposition, you…
For too long, the UN has been gripped by Israelophobia
It is something of an understatement to say that there has been no shortage of shocking posts on social media…
Why are Jews being blamed for Hamas’s attack on Israel?
‘Victim blaming’ is one of the sins that is most deplored by the social justice movement. When it comes to…
How Canada’s parliament ended up celebrating a former Nazi
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February last year. By the end of March, the streets of cities all over the…
London’s e-bikes are out of control
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rental electric bicycles are becoming a bit of a scourge in London. Unlike…
The police can’t be trusted to track our e-bikes
In more innocent times, I’d have responded to the news that police wished to fit tracking devices to electric bicycles…
Banning Iran’s IRGC makes more sense than cracking down on Wagner
Is the Wagner Group a terror threat to Britain? Until this morning, the thought had probably never occurred to most…
Why Iranians don’t hate Israel
One is an oppressive regime that guns down its own people, promotes a radical Islamist theology and hangs gay people…
What Jeremy Vine gets wrong about cyclists
I can’t believe we need to say this, but here goes: Motorists should not pull over to allow cyclists to…
Yes, Bradley Cooper’s fake nose is anti-Semitic
Bradley Cooper is not anti-Semitic. If he was, he’d surely have let it slip by now; as Mel Gibson proved…
A Saudi-Israel peace deal would be a game-changer
It emerged this week that the head of the Mossad, David Barnea, slipped quietly over to Washington in July to…
Not all cyclists support Sunak’s war on traffic control
My fiancée wants to put a sign up outside our house demanding that the speed limit be reduced to 20mph.…
Netanyahu’s judicial reforms are not the end of Israeli democracy
Watching Israel tear itself apart this week has been like seeing your best friend embarrass himself at a party. The…
The Coutts scandal shows the trouble with going cashless
The outrage over the cancelling of Nigel Farage’s bank account has uncovered the lengths to which elements of the British…
Children need to fight back against political indoctrination
There’s something troubling happening in our schools. In art class, my children have been instructed to make Black Lives Matter…
We don’t need bike vigilantes – cyclists already own the roads
Last week, Jeremy Vine shared a video of a motorist being abusive to a cyclist. Nothing new there, I hear…
Don’t condemn Israel for defending itself
Car-rammings, shootings, stabbings and bombings targeting innocent men, women and children are a constant fear for Israelis. This morning, seven…
Italy’s crackdown on cyclists is a step too far
What are the politics of your bicycle? An interesting question. I’d like to say that mine is an expression of…
What’s the point of tilting the statue of Vienna’s antisemitic mayor?
Tilting a statue. That’s the solution now. At least, that’s what a jury appointed by Vienna city council has recommended…
Snapchat is playing God with our children’s wellbeing
My kids have a new friend. If you have teenagers, chances are yours do, too. And it is a friend…
Why the Covid cycling boom isn’t over yet
Social distancing. Test and trace. Face-masks (what was wrong with just ‘masks’? Nobody could ever tell me). Clapping. Substantial meals.…
It’s no surprise the pandemic boom in cycling is over
In modern society, we live with a conundrum: there’s no need to endure physical discomfort of any kind, but unless…
The case against school uniform
On a normal morning in Winchester, the streets are crowded with sullen teenagers mooching in sleepy phalanxes to school, scruffy…
We must remember the unique atrocity of the Holocaust
At the heart of marking the Holocaust lies a conundrum. On the one hand, genocides happen all over the world,…
