In Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the main character employs a "perspective manipulator", i.e. a shorter man who appears with him in photos, to make him look taller. I sometimes wonder: does Jeremy give Piers the time of day in order to make himself look sane, by comparison?
It would be a mistake to run a Martin Bell-style independent against Farage. He wants a fight with "the establishment" and ganging-up on him like that would give him what he wants.
Better to refuse to play his game and, instead, leave him looking silly.
I don't care if there aren't many people at a university lecturer's lectures and if not many people are involved in their disruption. Such disruption is a profound insult to the institution. Any student engaging in it should be disciplined.
The ministers urging Starmer to go are feeding the hysteria. The next leader will be subject to instant leadership speculation and the next, and the next, whether Labour, Reform or Tory. Britain is becoming ungovernable. And the media fixation on this tittle tattle is not helping
This is correct. The test is simple. Duriing the period between October 7 and the beginning of Israel's military campaign did we see sympathy that was subsequently lost by the ferocity of that campaign? We did not. what we saw - especially on campuses was the celebration or rationalisation of the mass murder, sexualised sadism and torture and hostage taking as legitimate resistance against colonial oppressors irrespective if they were children, Nova festival goers, elderly holocaust survivors, people who had spent lives working for peace. The slaughter excited a thirst for more not less Jew- killing and not the end of occupation but the end of Israel. Then came the world wide avalanche of Jew hatred and Hamas cosplaying by drum- beating white people guilty about their own colonial history and displacing it on to Jews that gets ever more toxically racist; a virulent hatred so intense it of course strenthens not weakens the case for Zionism,
“Not once in our conversation is there any mention of class struggle, capital versus labour — or, for that matter, even wages.
It dawns on me that Polanski is the first British party leader to have been forged entirely through the prism of identity politics.”
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Polanski now retweeting one of the most virulently antisemitic accounts in Ireland, a man who was literally invited to Tehran by the Iranian regime to join a propaganda junket.
"Why isn't there a call for a huge rally in London this weekend of every committed anti-racist in the country?"
Journalist Jonathan Freedland calls for greater solidarity with the Jewish community following the terror attack in Golders Green.
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