How Britain failed Israel

That the United Kingdom’s central institutions are rotten, crumbling, captured and perhaps beyond recovery is not news, but the Gaza intifada has crystallised the scale of institutional debasement. The brutalisation and murder of 1,400 Jews by Palestinian terrorists, and the open celebration of those actions by Jew-haters in this country, ought to have been met swiftly and resolutely. We do not do that sort of thing here. Instead, this demonic behaviour has granted us the most intimate and bracing glimpse at the decay inside the British state since the aftermath of 9/11.

At a time when statesmanship is called for, we are forced to choose between Rishi Sunak, a waste of an expensive suit, and Sir Keir Starmer, a waste of a slightly more affordable suit. Both men have been praised for having a ‘good war’, this on the strength of them having said that massacring Jews is jolly well not on and that Israel has a right to defend itself from barbarians sworn to its extermination.