From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Keir Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted.
Britain’s former Prime Minister shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of Western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale.
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the U.S. or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other.
Raffi Berg may be fighting in court for damages, but it’s really the BBC in the dock for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question.