The Tory problem is when the factional right in the parliamentary party has just enough numbers to scrape a plainly unsuitable candidate into the final two who is then elected by the members. This ha… (View Post)

The Guardian has published an analysis which points to the same conclusion. Slam dunk it is then. But I suspect a fair few people will still emotionally blame Israel as it would overturn their imagin… (View Post)

An analysis published in The Guardian (a paper not reflexively pro Israeli) using open source info indicates very strongly that the hospital was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza. (View Post)

Even now referring to the Armenian genocide can get you into trouble in Turkey. Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel-winning Turkish novelist, can vouch for that. (View Post)

France has a much larger Muslim community than UK. 5.7m. Nearly 9% of the population. He'll have to tread carefully. (Total global Jewish population is just 16m. Which is why Jews feel so vulnerable.… (View Post)