4 "Squinting into the...depths of my laptop, amid "fashionably inadequate" lighting? For a piece headlined TV review? Ever considered watching on a better quality television set? Then she ought to see a compelling drama that won three awards from Le Festival des Créations Télévisuelles de Luchon.
3 "Uncommonly beautiful teenage children and uncommonly beautiful baby"? Er, rather, as plain as their parents. And a deliberate contrast to the winsome nanny? Rather than post inaccurate descriptions, the writer could benefit from a trip to Specsavers.
2 National economic strains impose undue stress on a woman juggling a rarer third child with her career. A doctor who justifies profiting from women's botox pressures with life saving dermatology. A daughter trying to save the planet.
1 A crit as off the mark as Macron's futile hunt for a prime minister who lasts. Viewers with less jaundiced eyes would doubtless render its hack's surname Dumpster. Some might call the series crux derivative. But The Intruder updates its origin with social comment.
Starmer's allies: he has *not abandoned progressive ideals? *https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/keir-starmer-broken-promises-tuition-fees-nationalisation-u-turn/ Cite the recent Labour conference speech? Reform-lite migrant curbs. Risible. The only thing the PM stands for? The national anthem.
4 As a journalist myself, I love the contradiction in one phrase: "Maria, 65, who runs Davies’ West Indian Bakery on Soho Road and did not want to share her last name."
2 International firms want to set up business in the area? Positive news. It, though, has suffered from poverty for decades under the Conservatives, first with Liberal Democrats, then alone, and Labour, in the past and now.
1 While people cited reject Jenrick's integration claims, the piece ducks issues. Why has the white population in Handsworth shrunk to only nine per cent? Better comparative incomes for homes elsewhere? Or white flight through racism?
A journalist and a Jew, I wish Crumpsall well. But the piece ducks Greater Manchester's sharp antisemitism rise in recent years. It might have stressed that Israel's disproportionate atrocities and aid siege, in response to Hamas carnage and kidnaps, cannot justify, yet fuels anti-Jewish hate.
2 Students who plan anti-Netanyahu assemblies tomorrow? Two years on from the Hamas atrocities and kidnaps? Gifts for Labour's blitz on rebel parades. What now? Launch 1,200 balloons to celebrate the deaths by "resistance". How to kill support for Gaza and the West Bank. Youth wasted on the young.
1 Many Jews like me agree on Mahmood. The home secretary proves racist to conflate Israel critiques with antisemitism. But Palestine rallies amid the Manchester terror fell into her protests crackdown trap. Imagine a pro-IDF demo soon after a zionist kills Muslims at a mosque. Leftists wise up...
As a Jew who lost relatives to Nazis, I have long backed justice for Palestinians. But activists erred in a refusal to delay protests amid the Manchester terror. What if a a zionist killed Muslims at a UK mosque? Should a pro-IDF rally proceed soon afterwards? The refusal walked into Mahmood's trap.
4 Support from the anti-racist movement may not be able to stop the deadly threat of anti-Jewish terror? It would, though, help British Jews feel less alone when it happens? The best way to halt the threat? The end to illegal occupation, with a viable Palestine state. Doubtless the CST agrees?
3 Large swathes of the anti-racist movement that stood alongside Jews when they faced neo-Nazis in the 1960s abandoned Britain’s Jewish community? Blame the IDF's Lebanon invasion and its part in the Sabra and Shatila massacre. This grew antipathy to Israel's unlawful occupation apartheid.
2 There is likely to be much more policing for Jewish communities? This will be expected and welcomed, but only addresses the symptoms? It cannot tackle the cause? The cause remains Israel's disproportionate atrocities and aid siege, in response to Hamas carnage and kidnaps.
1 Visit any Jewish community building, anywhere in the world, and you are likely to have to pass through an eye-popping level of security? This is not the result of paranoia, but a reaction to reality? Guards check bags at the entrance to the JW3 cultural venue in London, minus excessive intrusion.
Historians call antisemitism the longest hatred, due to its prevalence for 2,000 years. It originated in ancient Greco-Roman and early Christian attitudes toward Jews. But, amid its steep rise since Israel's war in Gaza, to deny the link defies credibility.
7 Starmer and Mahmood's words today duck complicity in military help for Israel. The Jewish deputies board suspended and censured members for their IDF critiques. Scandalous collusion, like in the US by Trump and earlier Biden and Harris.
6 The actions of a country of which Cunliffe is not a citizen leave her feeling unwelcome in her birthplace? I much regret that feeling. Pogroms, allowed by a majority, forced my grandparents to need shelter in Britain. Attacks by a fundamentalist minority will not drive me out.
4 The writer ponders the people who demand Israel cedes the whole region? Human rights activists seek only a viable Palestine state, minus illegal settlers. Israel hardened by the knowledge that the rest of the world despises its existence? Rather, abhors its barbarism.
3 Cunliffe notices "how the cause of this conflict is mentioned less and less often". The cause behind present hostilities spans decades under unlawful occupation Apartheid which Tutu called worse than in his South African homeland.
2 I deplore the Jew hate that persuaded you to quit Twitter. The response to similar bigotry towards me has proved to retaliate with reason on the platform. Long before October 7 2023, in a pro-Palestine rally, JEWS yelled that my family should have died in Auschwitz.
1 Your binarism notion - for or against Israel - excludes many Jews like me. We decry the Hamas atrocities and kidnaps, but also the IDF's disproportionate carnage and aid siege. Netanyahu's brutality, abetted by Labour's government, cannot justify, but fuels antisemitism.
