What should the state do when tens of thousands of people support a terrorist organisation?
Paul Goodman
“Politicians urge zero tolerance – but there’s a gap between law and enforcement. If the Met can arrest 155 anti-lockdown protestors, why can’t it do the same to pro-Hamas ringleaders?”
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Hamas are terrorists, and the BBC has no excuse for refusing to call them so
Henry Hill
“The Corporation’s guidelines do not require neutrality in the face of attacks on civilian targets. We know that because it regularly uses the word ‘terrorist’ in every context save this one.”
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Starmer’s speech. Confident, statesmanlike – and pitched squarely at Conservative voters
William Atkinson
“Though for all his efforts to place his tanks on Tory lawns, the former editor of Socialist Alternatives still struggled to speak like a Conservative in several crucial areas.”
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Vox pop in Golders Green: ‘I’m not worried about anti-semitism in the Labour Party any more.’
Andrew Gimson
“But for many London Jews find it is to soon to speak of the horrific events in Israel, and are filled with sombre forebodings.”
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Councils spending more on school run taxi fares for some pupils than the annual fees at Eton
Harry Phibbs
“The highest daily cost of home-to-school transport for any individual pupil was £969 a day for Camden. Lincolnshire £650. Redbridge £630. Gloucestershire £603.92. East Sussex £577.40. Brighton and Hove £500. Dorset £481.65. Buckinghamshire £480.”
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Lord Willetts
“We don’t want our children to grow up in a stultified, caste society where the only way to wealth and opportunity is to inherit it from parents.”
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Why I am not giving up on high speed rail
Andy Street
“The Prime Minister’s proposals provide the key: a new partnership with business to draw up a new, viable plan for a 21st-century railway between Birmingham and Manchester.”
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We are not being a true friend to Israel by turning a blind eye to breaches of international law
Charlotte Leslie
“Doing what we’re always done has proved catastrophic. Perpetuating cycles of violence-and-vengeance risks not only unhealable traumatisation of both Israelis and Palestinians but destabilisation of the entire globe.”
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It’s time for decisive action for farmed animals, not another Private Member’s Bill
Lorraine Platt
“The Conservatives were voted in on a platform to take decisive action on live exports. It’s time they delivered before it’s too late.”
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The implications for civil order in Britain of Hamas’ bloody assault on Israel
Paul Goodman
“During the half-century since the Yom Kippur war took place, conflict abroad has increasingly meant consequences here.”