Howell Harris

You really are absolutely full of ****. Even by the standards of online apologists for a rogue state.

We certainly know who to disbelieve, or at least be suspicious of, and I don’t mean Hamas, they’re almost irrelevant now, I mean the state doing the killing and physical destruction and _always_ absolving itself of any responsibility.

But there is no more a “One-State Solution” on offer than there has been an available 2SS since the assassination of Rabin. To a large fraction of the Israeli public & certainly their elected government there is perhaps a No-Palestinians Solution that appeals, but I doubt that this is deliverable.

As in “Putin’s Flex in Ukraine, 2014-2025”.

But how are they supposed to secure basic rights — from their Israeli occupiers, whose respect for Arab rights, including the right to life, is famously dependable, and at least as good as their tolerance of any form of Arab protest?

Seems very probable.

After the targeted killing of a tent full of journalists who have spent the last couple of years doing non-stop journalism, I think we can be reasonably sure that the Israelis knew they were killing journalists. That’s why they had to say that the poor guys were Hamas. Shoot the messenger.

Has the face to go with the role.

I doubt that Wales is very emergent, either as a nation or as a state. The decline of Labour & the impending (I fear) victory of Reform will put paid to both projects. But its universities were very important to what passed for national consciousness, esp in the Welsh heartland (Bangor & Aber).

Where is the authoritative guide to who was & who was not a legitimate journalist, & who gets to decide? If the answer is “the IDF,” why should anybody believe them by now? The tradition of allowing Israel to mark all of its own homework is surely dead of unnatural causes.

A surprisingly good essay. Normally when I see that an article’s in Unherd or Cap-X or even The Critic I run for cover.

They were already deliberately brain-deaded when you voted for them, but you may have thought that was just election tactics rather than the sad reality.

This is another useless robo-speak Labour “junior minister” of whom I have never heard & of/from whom I never wish to hear again. Let us hope that her political career is suitably short.

For once I agree with JC. Israel’s conduct, like Russia’s, shows the high price other people pay for giving a rogue state effective immunity.

No fly since 2010, 4 KW of solar since 2014, 1 MW of generation since a new meter at the end of May, and a very nice diesel Golf. Norwegian research on effects of widespread EV ownership & cheap energy costs = increased mileage & casual usage. Their road use will have to be taxed in due course.

This is your justification for killing them in their hundreds? Pure evil.

I don’t fly at all. Do you? I have a solar PV system + batteries for our house, have only bought 0.1 KWh of electricity a day since the solstice. Do you? Have an airpump survey booked. And, btw, EV drivers will eventually have to pay a fair price for their road usage, rather than **** all.

I do about 6K miles a year. Fuel costs are fairly negligible as against depreciation, insurance, maintenance & other fixed costs. You make a good point, btw, about the unaffordable (in the long term) underpricing of EV mileage & road use. They should start being made to pay. Road pricing for all!

They always keep quiet about that bit. Is there anything in the Tories’ 14 wasted or, worse, damaging years in government that they are now positive about?

I am sure they are not lying. I’m just not going to spend more on motoring costs than I have to.

Never paid more than £11K, never got more than a few £00 trade-in on cars that had years of life left in them. Running a car is a great way of pissing your money down the drain, no need to do so too enthusiastically.

I have never bought a new car. The technique of buying a 3-5 year old Volvo and keeping it till it reached 100,000 miles delivered cheap, reliable motoring for decades. No
more Volvos, but I’ve now got an ex-Motability diesel Golf, a dozen yrs old now & averaging 62 mpg. Why pay more?

40,000! In other circumstances this would be big news.

Is that a seaplane?

That’s from “The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance,” and the answer is not Jimmy Stewart.

His paradox stands up very well, too.

I trust that you started out at a very low level of liking?

A rare example of a columnist who got better on joining _The Times_.

R3 now? Super programme.

Reminds me of getting bitten on the leg by the unleashed Rottweiler of a young tattooed thug while I was on my bike. Apparently it was my fault. At least he didn’t push me into the river. And I did get an update of my tetanus, diphtheria, & one other vaccination I forget, for my trouble. Win-win.