Israel’s new best friends

It may sound hard to believe today, but there was a time when a lot of people really liked Israel. Large groups of young Europeans, mostly from the Nordic countries, would come over to the…





Why street protests matter

Do street protests matter?  Many people in the UK are still stung by how gigantic demonstrations two decades ago could not stop Tony Blair from joining the US-led invasion of Iraq. And today in Israel,…


The one person Starmer should have sacked

In the course of Labour’s first year in office, Keir Starmer has been very energetic and effective in one particular area: he’s very good at getting rid of people who fall out of favour for…


Welcome to Europe

For many years, people in the U.K. could comfortably boast that unlike continental European countries, we didn’t have Nazis.  We had a far Right, of course, but even that struggled to win seats in Parliament. …



Review: I Rediscover Russia, by Isaac Don Levine

Isaac Don Levine had a remarkable track record of writing breakthrough books about the twentieth century, routinely missing the main point. His 1917 book on the Russian Revolution failed to mention Lenin and the Bolsheviks….