On January 12th, BBC Radio 5 Live, for reasons that can only be speculated about, brought on a Tory donor, John Cauldwell. Cauldwell made a series of statements about Corbyn, one of which was that Corbyn ‘is an antisemite’. (Cauldwell also called him ‘a Marxist’.) About 40 minutes later, the…

Guardian editorial meeting, 14 October 2019 Interior, day. A long meeting table in a bland modern office, paper coffee cups and pastries, bottles of water, newspapers scattered everywhere. A dozen or so journalists. Editor: ‘Look, the Mail have got a Corbyn front page and the Times have got a Corbyn…

Dear Sir or Madam, You recently rang me up to issue ‘words of advice’ about a tweet I posted. I’ve made a formal complaint about the call, but I would like to explain this a little further, since I don’t appear to be understood. I have been campaigning on twitter…

A new and exciting development this week in the Great Smearing War, as a wholly novel epistemological category is introduced to delight a jaded and weary populace, that of the ‘apparently true’. Because just ‘true’ — well who has time for that anymore? True is over now this dazzling and…

‘Are you saying there was no antisemitism in Corbyn’s Labour Party?’ No. There were cases of antisemitism during Corbyn’s tenure in office, but they accounted for less than 0.1% of the membership. One estimate by General Secretary Jennie Formby put the figure at 0.06% (6 in every 10,000 people). This…

I think it says first that our media are in far too few hands, and are collectively guilty of a colossal failure. They failed consistently to examine any of the accusations, simply assuming guilt at every point, and gleefully stoking the flames. It was an abhorrent spectacle, Guardian and BBC…

In a 2018 edition of BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show, a Jewish couple were interviewed. They spoke, vividly, of their fears about a Corbyn-led government, how they intended to leave the UK if he was elected, how they feared for other Jewish people. This was fairly standard fare at this point…

So ends another thrilling week in the antisemitism wars. Quick shout-out to Spectator and Tatler columnist Tanya Gold for telling me that asking her to condemn fraud was a ‘purity test’ she was not prepared to take. Yes! We will not be coerced into taking moral stands against the journalistic…

An email I received from my MP, Peter Kyle, throws an interesting light on the tactics used by the antisemitism smearers against the left. I asked my MP, Peter Kyle (Lab, Hove) to tell me what he was disputing in this blog post, which lists ten common and widely used…