The rage, frustration and contempt of its terms are a foretaste of what’s to come if the Conservatives lose the next election.
As Prime Minister, he swapped scepticism for interventionism, with unfortunate results in Libya.
The new Foreign Secretary is asked whether he wants to distance himself from his predecessor’s rhetoric.
According to a YouGov poll conducted only six days after the atrocities, a staggering 49 per cent of 18–24-year-olds in the UK ‘don’t know’ whether Hamas is a terrorist organisation. This is obscene and abhorrent.
Let the protesters gather in one place, have their event, and disperse. No march. I’m reluctant to believe that the Met can’t police a rally properly if it puts its mind to it.
It can’t create the conditions for stability in Gaza and work towards a two-state solution with the present Prime Minister in place.
The new Speaker of the House of Representatives must tread a tightrope – getting Democrats on side without alienating his divided Republican colleagues.
We should say so because we care about an international order based on rules. Every country has an interest in that order – Israel, in the long run, more than most.
It is essential that the US, in particular, keeps alight the flame of a two-state solution as and when this, the only solution, could have stronger support.
At least 13 members of his front bench are in open revolt. As I write, that’s sustainable. As matters develop, it may not be.
Sir Keir’s choice is between not sacking front bench dissenters, so inviting claims of weakness, and doing so – thus provoking accusations of over-reacting.
We should own up: we don’t put a flag in our windows because we don’t want a brick through the glass. Equally, lapel pins are out: who wants to invite abuse? Intimidated, good people are doing nothing.
As is so often the case with international law and institutions, noble ideals bely a necessarily fractious and often shabby reality.
This way of thinking also contrasts with the naive counting of the civilian dead. In this tradition, war can be a necessary evil, but that judgement requires attention to its practical consequences.
Sánchez’s hunger for power is exacting a toll on all Spanish citizens, who witness daily the subjugation of democratic institutions, political rights, and economic productivity to the personal ambitions of an autocratic prime minister.