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This England: Puffed-up pastry

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…

The Tories are split into three camps and a shadow leadership contest is under way

Heading into an election year, the Conservative Party is in a dismal state – and Rishi Sunak is in panic…

In 2024, Labour must offer hope

If all Keir Starmer’s party promises is a second age of austerity, voters will soon abandon it.

Elon Musk’s death drive

The tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.

Lapland: a prisoner of geography

Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s existential…

What it means to be Jewish now

With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.

Jews in the diaspora must resist the inhumanity being done by Israel in our name

Jewish history in the 20th century testifies that suffering is a meagre moral teacher – but we learn its lessons…

The innocent are innocent, whichever side of the Hamas-Israel war they are on

I am an Israeli that knows you can’t defeat an ideology with brute force – there must be a better…

Both Netanyahu’s cabinet and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity

The Israeli left’s turn to the right comes from its sense of betrayal by the world’s left – especially by…

The universalist tradition has been forgotten, the Enlightenment betrayed

The Hamas attack has devastated progressive Jews who are not prepared to celebrate the carnage as an act of liberation.

Jewish progressives are deeply critical of Israel, yet inextricably tied to it

The horrendous killing and abduction of Israeli civilians placed many Jewish activists in unfamiliar territory.

As long as Palestine remains occupied, cycles of violence will continue

If there is one silver lining it is that the world has taken notice of the Palestinians in Gaza, the…

The founding of Israel wasn’t a colonial act – a refugee isn’t a colonist

It’s understandable that Palestinians have been indoctrinated with Jew hate, but there is no such excuse for Western students.

The global left is the only force that has the power to stay Israel’s hand

It’s tragic that Jews had to see their transition from powerlessness to power come at the price of another people’s…

Left-wing Jews are torn between their values and the intensifying conflict

The IDF’s response against all Gazans has made it harder to only see in Israel a victim of immediate circumstance.

This generation will never see Gazans and Israelis become fellow citizens

We are caught in three wars: against Hamas, against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and against anti-Semitism.

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This England: Possessive signs

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…

This year, all I want for Christmas is normality

My father will sit, happy and well, at the centre of my family’s celebrations. And that is all that matters.

BBC radio’s Gangster is true crime without the tawdriness

The story of the Burger Bar Boys is recent history as seen through the eyes of a Birmingham community living…