David Winner

Thing is, if you’re a lawyer and a Tory - maybe you’re even a Tory peer - and you fail to speak out very clearly and publicly against this stuff, you’re signalling for all to see that you’re at best comfortable with fascism and the destruction of the rule of law

I didn’t think I’d ever say this: let’s hope the Tory party can be saved | Polly Toynbee Britain badly needs a grownup party of the centre right. It won’t come from Badenoch – it may come from a new generation of one-nationers, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

I didn’t think I’d ever say this: let’s hope the Tory party can be saved | Polly Toynbee

Well said, Gary Neville! 👏

A work of art

Trump shifts into high gear to end war, and Netanyahu knows he can't stop him Netanyahu Signals Progress in the Cease-fire Talks, Perhaps Influenced by His Own Political Motivations. Meanwhile, the IDF's October 7 Committee Is Underway, While Netanyahu Keeps Evading a State Com...

Too conspiratorial. He is desperate to avoid a commission of inquiry (like those that followed earlier catastrophes) probably because it would reveal his stupidity and incompetence. This, by Haaretz's Amos Harel (who loathes him) is good www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Philosopher Leszek Kołakowski

Jerzy Kosinski

Historian Adam Zamoyski (or are you looking for fiction?)

‘An unkind film’: letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man Exclusive: Documents show ‘hostile’ director and ‘self-indulgent’ writer were at loggerheads during production of 1973 cult horror film A screenplay by one of the UK’s foremost writers, Anthony Shaffer, and a cast headed by Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward should have been the stuff of dreams for the director Robin Hardy in filming The Wicker Man more than half a century ago. Although it is today revered as a cult horror masterpiece, the extent of the misery that it brought the film-makers has now been revealed in previously unpublished letters and script drafts. Continue reading...

‘An unkind film’: letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man

Alternative interpretation: Trump, working with Qatar,Turkey, etc, wants this over asap and forced Netanyahu into accepting. Unhappy Netanyahu and his far right may want to keep war going but US doesn’t. Netanyahu now torn between Trump and his far right, likely politically screwed if Hamas agrees

Today, for horribly tragic reasons, might not have been the worst day for a lecture introducing my students to the dangers of antisemitic discourse and imagery infecting debate about the Israeli.Palestinian conflict.

OPINION: The innocence of Anglo-Jewry ended this Yom Kippur - Jewish News Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

Strong, deeply sad piece.
"Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country (and elsewhere) are all heading the wrong way."
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Conference season in different times. Tony Benn at Labour Party Conference, Brighton, #OnThisDay 1979

😂 A sense of humour at least

Welcome home

While today he presents himself as the defender of Palestinians under Israeli bombardment, the Russian intervention in Syria was supported by Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn, and his director of communications Seamus Milne.

This is why Syrians continue to despise him.
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

I didn't know until we buried my mother, so probably most people here don't know: Jewish cemeteries strongly recommend that you get insurance for the headstone.

Because the cemeteries are so often desecrated, the gravestones smashed.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

But Israel accepted the terms

Indeed. But you’d hope smart people in Britain would be able to spot real antisemitism

Obviously not everyone, but plenty are, and have been since long before this war. And when people like David Baddiel point out the blindness or indifference of “anti racists” towards antisemitism (a highly specific, peculiar and toxic form of racism) they get ignored, gaslit, ridiculed

Manchester synagogue terrorist was on bail for alleged rape Exclusive: Jihad al-Shamie had been under investigation over alleged sexual attack earlier this year, sources say

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In a time of hate and rancour, two Jews sought to pray – and were killed. Let Manchester be a turning point | Jonathan Freedland This was a horror but with so much intolerance and antisemitism, no one can say it was a surprise. There are lessons to learn, and that must start now, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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yes to all of this

Oh no. One of the deceased in Manchester was killed by gunshot from police

Breaking news: Greater Manchester Police said that its officers shot two of the victims in the attack on a synagogue in the city on Thursday, one of whom died. on.ft.com/3VJlnbj

Starmer goes to war on racism Now mobilise the party and the working class to fight Reform

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DEP Bella, bellisima Claudia Cardinale 🖤🖤🖤.