If you were to found a Labour Friends of Iran, you would sure as shit be fielding a few questions right now, would you not? Yet the scale of repression there does not touch what has happened and is happening in Gaza.

I wonder if this episode and the amount of time taken up by MPs and Lords to defend foreign hooligans will be mentioned in those think pieces about 'why is it so difficult to govern Britain nowadays?' (It won't)

Maybe accept responsibility without an apology. Maybe.

Genuinely puzzled as to what Mandelson would have to do to no longer be treated as a prime source of political wisdom by the BBC, esp as he doesn’t seem to be prepared to apologise or accept responsibility