A tumultuous, roller-coaster of a week in what feels like Series 37 of the Longest Running Political Scandal Ever Attempted, with the release of Al Jazeera’s ‘Labour Files’ documentaries, four searing, extraordinary films about systematic abuses within the UK Labour Party, of such eloquence, such power, such masterly precision, that…

Seismic developments in the Great Interminable Antisemitism Crisis, as literary doyen and omnipresent Guardian savant Jonathan Freedland airily declares that, whilst right-wing Jewish voices have not so far been heard, left-wing Jewish voices have been ‘overcovered’. Now. No-one would wish to be in any way pedantic about this. Mr Freedland…

A raging wildfire of activity in the Great Antisemitism Smearing War this week, as Keir Starmer incurs the wrath, not just of left-wing Jewish Voice for Labour, but also right-wing Campaign Against Antisemitism, for wandering moodily through the Berlin Holocaust memorial in a video as if it were a tourist…

You’d think it would be simple enough to establish what a public figure said in public, wouldn’t you? You’d just check the recorded facts, the tape or the transcript, and you would find out. Easy, right? Wrong. We have been fact-checking the various antisemitism accusations made against prominent leftists and…

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…

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…