Daniel Finkelstein, in the Times, on Iran and the hard left: Five years ago, during a row about his behaviour towards Jewish students at Bristol University, hundreds of leftist academics signed an open letter in defence of Professor David Miller. Despite Miller’s capacity for glaring factual errors and unhinged interpretations, his allies described him as…

“The latest incidents that happened in Manchester. Maccabi in Birmingham. Teachers in Bristol banning a local MP and demonstrators at Notting Hill, this is no longer a symptom; it’s an outbreak. “This isn’t a spike. It’s a systemic problem.“

One of our lovely Gaza MPs.

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On the subject of that ban on the Jewish MP – Stephen Daisley: Ruth Wisse defines anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as ‘the organisation of politics against the Jews’, and in Britain it is striking just how openly the organisers operate. During his remarks to Sunday’s Jewish Labour Movement conference, Communities Secretary Steve Reed revealed that a Jewish colleague…

Gareth Roberts, in the Spectator, on our “fascinatingly awful” Labour government: Right now, Starmer is spluttering about X, accusing Elon Musk’s platform of ‘protecting their abusive users’ rather than ‘the women and children who are being abused’, which apparently ‘shows a total distortion of priorities’. He is pronouncing loftily from that hillock of the moral…

About those Iranian Revolutionary Guards: Sir Keir Starmer has refused to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard because he believes that doing so would have no effect on the group and would serve only to make Britain feel “better about ourselves”. And we can’t have that. Feeling better about ourselves? Whatever next. The prime minister “utterly…

“You will see we are not in any particular animosity with the Americans,” said Khomeini, pledging his new state – the one that became the repressive Islamic Republic – will be “a humanitarian one, which will benefit the cause of peace and tranquillity for all mankind”. The Americans were convinced that Khomeini was a Gandhi…

….the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent…