The architect of Britain's modern welfare system, Ernst Bevin, once remarked in an interview that not only did he dislike the phrase but that in fact he believed in no such thing as a welfare state. For the sick and the elderly full provision must be made but of the...

Israel Apartheid week is fast approaching and opponents of the Jewish state are busying themselves on campuses up and down the country. With the Red, Green and Black bunting about to go up, sessions by anti-Israel rap artists being advertised and bake sales for the next flotilla being prepared, one...

While the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is busy sending in his troops to massacre his own people in the streets and the UN fails to pass any resolution condemning these atrocities, the BBC has decided that of equal news worthiness is a story about another despot, Fidel Castro,

Ofcom has revoked the UK licence of the Iranian state controlled channel Press TV. Since 2007 Press TV has been the flagship of Iran's propaganda mission to the West, and now it is gone and that has to be good news for supporters of democracy and human rights everywhere. Enter...

It sounds surreal to say it but Nazi themed drinking games seem to have been getting a lot of press coverage of late. First there was the news of how members of the Oxford students Conservative Association had sung Nazi themed songs during a drinking session and then...

Having promised that UCL would ensure free speech for everyone, not just religious-extremists, Malcolm Grant's institution now prevents an advocate for democracy and Israel from speaking on its campus.

Ever since a former president of UCL's Islamic society, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to blow-up himself and a passenger jet...

Perhaps the nature of coalition government inevitably necessitates a degree of compromise on the vision originally promised to the people at election time. Yet this alone hardly explains the way in which David Cameron's government is not only not moving forward in the direction it claimed to believe in but...

With the release of the IAEA report that essentially confirms Iran's much suspected scramble for nuclear weapons to be well underway, a host of opinion pieces have been appearing in the British media to try and sway public opinion against any kind of intervention being taken against the Iranian threat....

The sobering reports of the threats made against Mike Freer, MP for Golders Green and Finchley, during his surgery at a local Mosque come as concerning and yet for many of us unsurprising news. We would do well to reflect seriously about the wider implications of this incident, particularly in...

The small rabble that has taken to camping outside St Pauls Cathedral as part of a call to occupy the London Stock Exchange, in what appears to be a mimic of the Wall Street occupation, have, among other things, taken to calling themselves 'the 99%'.

Oh really, is that...

Last month a Christian owner of a Café where bible verses were being displayed on television screens was told (quite incorrectly) by police that he was breaking the law.

The fact that British police would consider the displaying of Christian scripture an illegal offence is a concerning indication of...

Durban III, as the UN's world conference on racism and xenophobia has come to be popularly known, has long been synonymous with aggressively anti-Western and anti-Israel posturing. With such world renowned patrons, Durban can revel in the prestige brought by the likes of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Colonel...

Anyone attending this year's Lib Dem conference could be forgiven for thinking that the Lib Dems were still in opposition and running against some wildly rightwing Tory government. Perhaps when the likes of Vince Cable and Chris Huhne are addressing the party faithful they forget not only that they are...

Over the weekend I paid a visit to my native Suffolk and called in on some relatives while I was there. My great uncle, a man now going into his 90s, told me of his childhood growing up in pre-war Peckham, a part of the city now quite unrecognisable to...

A poll carried out for a recent BBC Two documentary on the subject, suggested that just 68% of those Brits believe that there was no conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks. That leaves a rather worryingly large margin of those who either believed there had been a conspiracy or that they...