News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
VAT on private schools won't harm the most well-off. Rather, because refugees from independent schools will get places at good state schools that would otherwise go to disadvantaged pupils, it will harm the least well-off.
Unlike Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer has never described Hezbollah as his friends. But other than that, when it comes to Israel there is now little of consequence to differentiate them, says Stephen Pollard.
Reform is on track to win 13 MPs with 17% of the vote, the final major poll of the General Election has predicted. Labour is set to hit 475 seats on 37.6%, despite missing Jeremy Corbyn's figure of 40% in his 2017 loss.
Sadiq Khan has "probably watched the large turnouts at last weekend's pro-Palestinian protests and decided he must be, if not on the right side of history, then at least on the right side of voters", writes Tom Harris.
According to the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, the woke Left cannot see Hamas for what it is because it's afflicted with 'Israelophobia', a version of antisemitism masquerading as solidarity with the 'oppressed'.
The dismissal of Nigel Farage's de-banking by the Left was short-sighted. They may be be in no danger of being de-banked, but what if the political wind changes? They should be grateful to Farage for defending free speech.
Many dismiss Theresa May's three-year term as a failure. But with her reverence for rules and procedure, her predilection for compromise and her unwillingness to confront senior officials, she transformed British politics.
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