An archive of my published work https://www.varsity.co.uk/opinion/20436 https://www.varsity.co.uk/opinion/20829 https://www.varsity.co.uk/opinion/20951 https://www.varsity.co.uk/opinion/21177 https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/why-we-should-drop-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism/ https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/06/i-was-expelled-from-cambridge-university-labour-club-for-disagreeing-with-the-ihra https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/theresa-mays-shameful-record/ https://www.varsity.co.uk/opinion/21837 https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/back-to-basics/ https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/barring-extradition-on-mental-health-concerns-assange-extradition/ https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/too-little-too-late/ https://www.varsity.co.uk/comment/23462 https://www.sublationmag.com/post/no-contest-of-ideas https://labourhub.org.uk/2022/09/16/the-trajectory-of-liz-truss/ https://labourhub.org.uk/2022/10/13/churchill-behind-the-myth/ https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1427/from-amidst-the-wreckage/ https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1431/a-study-in-betrayal/ https://www.campain.org/post/a-flawed-article-in-the-observer https://www.sublationmag.com/post/is-there-a-new-british-politics https://labourhub.org.uk/2023/09/02/free-speech-frauds/
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Should progressives leave the Labour Party?
The short answer is no. At this point in time the Labour Party remains the only viable opposition to an increasingly destructive and rapacious Conservative government. This is a natural consequence of our electoral system: first past the post systematically disadvantages third parties. A more democratic system of proportional representation would allow a far greater … Continue reading Should progressives leave the Labour Party?
Churchill and Peace with Germany
Part three of a response to Andrew Roberts and Zewditu Gebreyohanes Roberts and Gebreyohanes write that ‘[t]here were plenty of senior figures in the British government who were willing to countenance making peace with Hitler in 1940, but Churchill was not.’ This is inaccurate. Churchill was opposed to the idea of Italian mediation, supported by … Continue reading Churchill and Peace with Germany
Nuclear Illegality
On 8 April 2021, I wrote in an article in the University of Cambridge’s main student newspaper, Varsity, that ‘[m]inisters are so invested in a nostalgic vision of British power that the law may be happily trampled underfoot.’ I was writing with respect to the government’s plans to violate Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation … Continue reading Nuclear Illegality
Churchill and the Nazis
Part two of a response to Andrew Roberts and Zewditu Gebreyohanes Roberts and Gebreyohanes write that Churchill had a ‘dogged determination to defeat the Nazis, the threat from whom he had been warning against for almost a decade’. This is a misleading characterisation of Churchill’s understanding of the Nazi movement. Churchill indeed warned against the … Continue reading Churchill and the Nazis
How Labour Party Bureaucrats made a Mockery of Democracy
This article was written (26/4/20) after the leaked Labour report revealed anti-democratic plots were hatched by senior party bureaucrats to sabotage Corbyn’s leadership I. The leaks from an internal report on antisemitism in the Labour Party highlight that Britain’s main opposition party is democratically defunct. A conspiracy to undermine Labour’s chances of an election victory … Continue reading How Labour Party Bureaucrats made a Mockery of Democracy
On Criminality
"The strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept”Thucydides “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished who kill not in large companies, and to the sound of trumpets; it is the rule.”Voltaire Criminality in our world is treated with pretty arbitrary standards. … Continue reading On Criminality
How Sir Martin Gilbert Fudged the Facts to Protect his Hero
I. Sir Martin Gilbert was Churchill’s official biographer, and evidently enamoured of his subject: ‘I never felt that he [Churchill] was going to spring an unpleasant surprise on me. I might find that he was adopting views with which I disagreed. But I always knew that there would be nothing to cause me to think: … Continue reading How Sir Martin Gilbert Fudged the Facts to Protect his Hero
Churchill’s Prejudices
Many people today are aware of Winston Churchill’s low opinion of Africans, Indians and Arabs. Somewhat less known are his negative opinions of a number of Jews. In 1920 an article by Churchill appeared in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, titled ‘Zionism versus Bolshevism’. In it he expressed his belief that patriotic ‘national Jews’ could be … Continue reading Churchill’s Prejudices
A Regius Professor at Oxford Considers African History
Hugh Trevor-Roper was Regius Professor of History at Oxford 1957-1980, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge 1980-1987. In a 1965 book, The Rise of Christian Europe, Trevor-Roper observed that ‘[u]ndergraduates, seduced, as always, by the changing breath of journalistic fashion’ wanted to be ‘taught the history of Africa’. Of course, those foolish, trendy undergraduates had made … Continue reading A Regius Professor at Oxford Considers African History