4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (209+ words) Andy Burnham acknowledged that as the community prepares to commemorate Rosh Hashanah this year, it will be reflecting on a period “that has brought real pain and anxiety to many.” In his New Year message, the Prime Minister appeared to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (493+ words) Cambridge Literary Festival has removed a webpage advertising an event with a writer who expressed support for the 7 October Hamas terror attack. Australian-Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah had been due to discuss her new novel, Discipline, at Newnham College on 8 October…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (795+ words) Which famous person, dead or alive, do you most admire? My wife asked me this question recently, and I found it surprisingly difficult to answer, probably because I’m a cynic by nature and a journalist by trade. But a few…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (605+ words) I had not intended to write about Itamar Ben Gvir. Not because he is unimportant, he is anything but. He is head of security in Israel and the Occupied Territories, so his ideas will have enormous influence. Rather, it was…...