Month: July 2018

Jeremy Corbyn has really not had a good week. It was the week when the dam really finally burst on anti-Semitism, with the PLP wholeheartedly rejecting the party’s “doctored” definition of anti-Semitism, one-third of British voters surveyed thinking him an anti-Semite and an unprecedented and scathing joint editorial on the front page of the UK’s… Continue reading Corbyn’s ill-judged reaction to Margaret Hodge’s comments may just become his undoing

I realise that the Centre Left has been more than a little focused recently on the continuing slow implosion of the Labour Party, however what is happening on the world stage right now as a result of the Trump-Putin and NATO summits is both significant and deeply disturbing.The president of the United States has not… Continue reading Montenegro

The original #EnoughisEnough demo against anti-Semitism, March 2018 What with the Cabinet crisis, NATO summit, Trump visit and World Cup, it is easy to pass over some events in the Labour Party which could be accurately described as momentous. And not in a good way. Last week may have been the week where the Corbyn… Continue reading Labour and anti-Semitism: enough really is enough

It is somewhat inevitable, in the current, febrile political climate, that Tony Blair’s few interventions elicit disproportionate responses in Britain. Even when those interventions conclude little that most Western commentators outside Britain, or a European historian of average talent, would disagree with. In part, this is because in Britain the unspoken May-Corbyn alliance on Brexit… Continue reading Corbyn fiddles while Europe, and the world, reach for the matches