Howard Jacobson, at UnHerd, on Glastonbury: It’s the agglomeration that should worry us more than whether or not the BBC should have pulled the plug or the police should take action. How do you take action against however many thousands were complicit — not by their silence but by their enthusiastic collaboration in Bob Vylan’s…

It wasn't all Bob Vylan and Kneecap. From the JC: Glastonbury bills itself as a celebration of peace and unity but while tens of thousands danced to headline acts, a different kind of performance unfolded on the festival’s political fringes. In one of two appearances, Palestine Action activists were invited onto the “Shangri La” stage on Thursday,…

It's almost like there's some kind of pattern here… pic.twitter.com/8dkcFggp9H — ♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ (@fem_mb) June 30, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Story at Reduxx. Added: Ah yes, the moral authority who called me “disgusting” and tagged Surrey Police over “transphobia.”They lapped it up Fast forward: 30 years behind bars for child sex abuse. Funny how the loudest…

Where the Lea joins the Thames, this morning:

In 2008, @AP reported that Hamas terrorists were fighting in civilian clothes—and being counted as civilian casualties. Its Palestinian reporter in Gaza was threatened—and the Jerusalem bureau censored the story. Without an editor's note about compliance with Hamas censorship. pic.twitter.com/rsBwxHYROP — Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) June 30, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

There's a culture of fear now in North Korea's munitions factories, after workers were punished – up to and including execution – for not toeing the line.  North Korea’s state security department has taken an ultra-hardline stance against “counterrevolutionary acts” at munitions factories in Jagang province earlier this year. Families of security officers at munitions…

The report on antisemitism at Goldsmiths dropped yesterday. It mentioned no sanctions against anybody who was responsible for any antisemitism. Today, I receive an email from Goldsmiths UCU, inviting me to its AGM, which will feature a guest speaker from Palestine Action. — David Hirsh (@DavidHirsh) June 27, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Following on from the previous post… From the Times: Britain faces an “enormous and ongoing threat” from Islamic terrorists, a former Labour home secretary has warned. Lord Blunkett said the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas and the subsequent war in Gaza had instilled a growing and “disturbing” level of hatred against Jewish people in…

‘Murdering bitch’. ‘Jews deserve to die’. ‘You are all filth.’ This is what happened today in the nice middle class area of London we both live in (written by the lady it happened to). I haven’t posted on Facebook for years. But something happened today that I can’t stay… — Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) June 29,…

Dave Rich: 378 people were murdered at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on 7 October: 378 young people who just wanted to dance, let loose and party, as young people all over the world do at music festivals. They were murdered by Hamas, in cold blood and in a murderous frenzy, filmed by…