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Words have consequences. This phrase, or versions of it, has been around for a long time, and is apposite to Israel's current military actions in Gaza. The word 'genocide' courses through writing and discussion, and a UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded that Israel has committed genocide. In return Israel has furiously rejected the claim.
It's a tough life being a sports presenter on a current affairs programme. One minute it's the war in Ukraine, and the next it's: 'Now over to Mike Williams with the sport'.
A slightly thinner month of content, partly due to preparation for leading an in-depth tour of the Barbican for London Historians, but principally and more importantly due to the arrival of Grandson No.2. The 8 month old now has competition, but we will have to allow time for the sub-one month old to show his paces.
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This piece is inspired by a Times article written by journalist Deborah Ross, 'How to be an antisemite (don't worry, it's easy)'. So that my effort is a little more than reporting her own insights, I am adding a few thoughts of my own, through some knowledge of the Jewish community.
Finally, a promise by a previous Government has come home to roost. 'Stop the Boats'. As I have written often, statements like these are made by politicians when they know that the promise is unachievable but it looks good at the time, and subsequently when the promise fails there is the excuse that progress is being made ('at pace' is often thrown in because that also looks good), but that the failure was beyond the Government's control and anyway no one should have taken the promise literally.