Starmer is shit and Gaza is a horrendous atrocity. But he's also a long way down the list of people responsible for what's going on there. I find it one of the stranger things to lay at his door.

I wonder whether they can really separate BBC News from BBC everything else? As an institution, the BBC has a liberal bias (or at least a bias for pluralism and tolerance). I wouldn't say BBC News does.

He's very coherent as a hatemonger, though.

Still, at least it is a distraction from spending Yom Kippur contemplating “which of the ideologies that want us dead is behind this attack, and how will it strengthen the other ideologies that also want us dead?”

National nervous breakdown.

This is absolutely a huge part of it. "Hmm well I personally may not be a fan of mass deportations however I must be scrupulously fair to those who advocate them, and anyway most people are per my twitter feed, so I'm showing my great independence by writing favourably about them"