Bishop condemns Labour antisemitism and demands immediate expulsions
"For too many on the Left, Jewish suffering does not touch them the way Muslim suffering or gay suffering or black suffering touches them," wrote Stephen Daisley in 2015 on…
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Archbishops intervene in General Election challenging Labour Antisemitism
The first General Election debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn was a fractious, unedifying and deeply unpleasant affair. It wasn't so much a political debate as a terse slanging match of soundbites and truncated ripostes: arguments weren't allowed to…
The Labour Party has officially become institutionally antisemitic
It has long been suspected that Jeremy Corbyn has a problem with Jews (if not known that he is antipathetic to Judaism, defends antisemitic conspiracy theorists, and accommodates Jew-hatred), but…
Corbyn Monoxide: why does the Left get away with anti-Tory hate?
It's supposed to be a joke, of course, and we're all supposed to laugh. But imagine – just try to imagine – if these students had written such vile comments…
Calls for Jewish Labour Movement to be expelled from Labour Party
Where is Baroness Chakrabarti? Anybody seen or heard from her since she took the ermine? If you bump into her anywhere, could you please tell her that she urgently needs…
Corbyn’s mission is Christian socialism – but the country will never vote for it
"So enthused by @JeremyCorbyn4PM win today," tweeted the Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser, on hearing of the victorious re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. "The world is…
Why does no one care that Keith Vaz’s rent boys might be trapped in sexual slavery?
That the married MP Keith Vaz pays male prostitutes for sex is a "private matter", according to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. That he engages in unsafe sex, uses legal…
Shami Chakrabarti: a shameful peerage for a sham report into Labour's anti-Semitism
It takes a lot for the Chief Rabbi to remonstrate with a big political cheese and denounce an official independent inquiry. But the elevation of Shami Chakrabarti to the…
C of E priest says Labour's anti-Semitism is a right-wing plot, and Tories are racist
"Best wait for the vitriolic onslaught," tweeted Fr Simon Rundell, when he was asked politely and courteously if he would like to add anything or clarify his assertion that…
Corbyn's accommodation of Jew-hatred is a betrayal of Labour's morality
Jews have "big noses" and "slaughter the oppressed", and Hitler was a "Zionist God", according to Vicki Kirby, former Labour parliamentary candidate and now vice-chairman of the party's Woking…
Corbyn's moral mission for a kinder, more inclusive politics
A bit doddery and oafish, Jeremy Corbyn stumbled and stammered through his first Conference speech like a 1950s grey-bearded puritan. He was robed in a bright red tie, though…
Labour Friends of Palestine host Holocaust denier at Party Conference
Politics endangers the soul. Where there was once principle and conviction, there is compromise and obfuscation. Doctrine adapts and morality is murky. Truth is abstracted, or swallowed in bitterness.…
Corbyn courts the churches, but Labour loathes Christianity
Can you imagine what it must be like to be a Labour MP at the moment? It’s like the scruffy kid at school who doesn’t make friends easily and…
Labour has become the party of terrorists, extremists and radical revolutionaries
"We now have a leader who is as extreme and as hard left as any leader we have ever had including Keir Hardie. We have got a leader who…
Jeremy Corbyn is crowned Labour leader – it's the prayer wot won it
Archbishop Cranmer: "Please, Lord, please let Jeremy Corbyn win the Labour Party leadership. Pleeeeeease." It was a frivolous intercession made in the Prayer Room (at the bottom of the Homepage)…
Clerics for Corbyn: Bishop of Willesden comes out for 'Alice in Wonderland' politics
Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden, has joined the Rev'd Giles Fraser and finally come out for Jeremy Corbyn. This is that same Jeremy Corbyn of whom Tony Blair says…
Why does Jeremy Corbyn grasp the oppression of every minority except Jews?
"For too many on the Left, Jewish suffering does not touch them the way Muslim suffering or gay suffering or black suffering touches them," writes the discerning Stephen Daisley…
Peter Mandelson plots to subvert democracy: the arrogance of the political elite
When the Italian social scientist Vilfredo Pareto observed the political revolutions and machinations by which presidents are overthrown and regimes fall and rise, he coined a phrase which has…
Is Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semitic Israel hater?
Jeremy Corbyn has a few questions to answer. They have been posed by The Jewish Chronicle, iterated by the Daily Mail, reiterated by the Guardian and re-reiterated by the…
The cult of Comrade Corbyn
A cult is a small, unpopular religion. A religion is a large and fashionable cult. When the disesteemed and shunned become desirable and popular, there follows respect, if not…