I’m ashamed to tell you about my latest Youtube obsession. After months of binge watching Family Guy and documentaries about serial killers, I’ve gotten addicted to a Youtuber called Dhar Mann. In case you don’t know, Dhar Mann is a really smug Southern Californian entrepreneur who calls his Youtube subscribers…

Right now, this country reminds me of a battered partner who keeps going back to an his abuser and wonders why he gets beaten. Being totally unprepared for the first wave was a tragic mistake but understandable. Promoiting Eat Out to Help Out when there were clear signs of a…

Here’s a a short exercise you can try on your tablet or laptop. Simply go to Google Maps or Google Earth, then cut and paste one of the following coordinates into the search bar. 41.373725, 86.318747 44.329306, 86.160519 42.880909, 90.132269 Finally, press the ‘Enter’ key. You are looking at just…

Cohens, Corbyns and Common Ground (Formerly Published on 12th October 2018) Does Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party have a problem with anti-Semitism? That’s actually a fairly easy question to answer. It simply depends how much you have to have it in for Israel to be called anti-Semitic. Yes, the Left contains…

It’s the one concession that Israelis refuse to consider in return for peace. Allow the refugees back to Israel and Palestinians will be in the majority. If we’re lucky, we’ll be second class citizens of an Arab state. If we’re not, the Palestinians will drive us into the sea. …

It’s more than thirty five years since I stopped being religiously observant, but between 1979 and 1981, I was a ‘yeshiva bochur’ at an ultra-orthodox yeshiva in Sunderland. Although it’s a very long time ago, some of the BBC’s recent coverage of unregistered yeshivas in Stamford Hill still resonates. I…

Far from Bejing in the remote province of Xinjiang, the Chinese government is committing what can only be described as cultural genocide on an epic scale. …