Recent content by JonR

What would any of you had done in Hoyle’s shoes? It seems to me he was pressured into selecting the Labour amendment. I think if he had a free hand he would have gone with Commons convention. The whole thing smacks of all three parties gaming the system for their own petty advantage and it has...

From 2012 - 2014 I worked for a small consultancy and, about a year into the role, was feeling that I was starting to get the hang of things when one afternoon at the fag end of 2013 we were all gathered into a meeting where it was announced that the company had been bought out by PwC. This was...

Netanyahu did not “help create” Hamas. Hamas was formed in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmad Yassin as a result of the 2nd Intifada. Netanyahu did facilitate the funnelling of cash to Hamas at one time because he thought he was buying economic quiet. Wrongly, as it turns out. The IDF are not about...

Feel free to call Netanyahu all the names under the sun, Tony. I don’t hold a candle for him and lots of Israelis want him gone and so do I. His negligence and selfishness in clinging to power at all costs caused Israel a critical moment of weakness which Hamas sensed and they consequently...

Hamas certainly did it on October 7th, and yes, what they did was sickening. Not only that, they have quite openly said they want to do it again and again, as dictated by their charter. The war in Gaza is simply a case of Israel trying to prevent any repetition of the deliberately targeted...

Great song - brilliant performance. Thanks for the link, Paul.

This is actually good news - it always was a terrible piece of legislation. It will be interesting to see what Netanyahu does next.

Bnei Akiva is a Jewish youth group. I was a member of a few such groups myself back in the day: Brady Maccabi, Habonim and BBYO to name but three. Pretty much all of them support members who want to make aliyah, ie. emigrate to Israel. In Israel once you reach the age of 18 national service in...

So, Stephen Fry declares he is a Jew and talks about the alarming rise in antisemitism since October 7th, takes care to mention there are casualties on both sides of the conflict and wishes us all a merry Xmas no matter what race, colour or creed we are, and the considered response on here and...

I’m with Scottish Power too. For years I have been submitting meter readings via their app with no issue. Then they nagged and nagged and I relented and so a smart meter is due to be fitted early Jan. Time will tell whether I have cause to regret my decision.

Twelve years ago I suffered partial blindness in my left eye. If I covered my right eye, all I could see was a pinprick in the middle of my left eye. This effect lasted about an hour. After that it cleared which was lucky because I was working in an office which was a 55 mile drive from home...

A powerful and impressive speech - thanks for posting this, Paul.

If you read my post carefully I am trying to imagine what it must be like for Israelis living in Israel right now, with the rest of the world telling them from their (relatively comfortable) viewpoints abroad that they must have a two state solution in order for there to be peace.

I doubt that there will be many Israelis, living in Israel, where the memories of the October 7th atrocities are still fresh, and with hostages still in Gaza with no sign of a release date, who would entertain the idea of having a Palestinian state on their doorstep any time soon.

Wait a minute Tony. Are you suggesting the march against antisemitism is … “antisemitic” ? I cannot even begin to understand such a characterisation. Please tell me if I have misunderstood.