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NEWS: Royal Mail to issue Sir Nicky Winton stamp after 105,000 back campaign
A man celebrated as “Britain’s Schindler” for saving hundreds of children from the Holocaust will be immortalised on a Royal Mail stamp after a petition attracted more than 105,000 supporters. Campaigners had called for Sir Nicholas Winton, who arranged for eight trains to carry 669 mainly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to London in 1939,… Continue reading
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DEBATE: Should the Holocaust be off-limits to trashy fiction?
On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, discussing the morality of a ‘Nazi-meets-Jew’ romance novel set in Theresienstadt, nominated for a top book award. Should the Holocaust be off-limits to trashy fiction writers and other peddlers of schlock? Listen from 2hrs 50mins… [Aired 11/8/15] Continue reading
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OPINION: So, where are all these mainstream Muslim moderates?
So it’s congratulations to Bethnal Green schoolgirl Amira Abase and her “ginger jihadi” sweetheart Abdullah Elmir on the occasion of their wedding. After all the anguish over Amira and her pals fleeing Blighty to join ISIS during half-term, finally we have the happy ending we’ve waited for. Romance isn’t dead, although the groom hopefully soon will be. MPs… Continue reading
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OPINION: Cheers for Sir Nicky’s legacy, tears for the ninth train
No words do justice to the debt civilisation owes Sir Nicholas Winton, so I’ll attempt very few. Sir Nicky, who passed away last week at the ripe old age of 106, was the great British hero of mankind’s darkest hour. He saved 669 precious children from Hitler, who boarded eight trains from Austria and Czechoslovakia bound for Liverpool… Continue reading
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OPINION: Right kids… fancy a petting zoo, soft play or a Nazi rally?
It’s tricky knowing what to do with the kids at the weekend. Petting zoo? Soft play? Well, this Saturday we’re trying something different – we’re going to see some real-life Nazis. [“Yes, sweetheart. These men are silly pooh-pooh heads! No, darling. I don’t think their arms are stuck in that position.”] It seems like something… Continue reading
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OPINION: What do Silvan Shalom and Taylor Swift have in common?
If proof was needed of the impact and timeliness of Monday’s inaugural Jewish News Israel Policy Conference, it arrived within seconds of the start when the event’s Twitter hashtag #UKIsrael2015 began trending nationwide – alongside ‘#TaylorSwift’ and ‘#LorraineKelly’. Watch Richard Ferrer’s opening address HERE The day, which saw 40 major speakers arrive in Parliament to address… Continue reading
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LORD SACKS INTERVIEW: The 100-year war?
An ominous shadow has swept across the Middle East and North Africa, leaving chaos and carnage in its wake. Mad men armed with Kalashnikovs and depraved convictions commit unspeakable acts, safe in the knowledge they are doing God’s work. How the civilised world counters Islamic State and its evil ilk is the thorny thesis of… Continue reading
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OPINION: Tony, tackle Holocaust distorters and let the rest say fish ride bikes
First, an admission: I like Tony Blair. A lot. Despite Iraq. He might grin too widely and tan too easily. He might be a little too fond of soundbites and speaking fees. But, eight years after leaving Downing Street, he is still the biggest beast in British politics – a persuasive pragmatist who still makes… Continue reading
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OPINION: Why do I keep taking these trips to hell?
So here I am again, moping around another Nazi concentration camp. Why do I keep taking these hellish trips? To Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Plaszów and today Bergen Belsen, as part of a UK delegation marking the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by the British army. Is it a sense of duty? Morbid fascination? To… Continue reading
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OPINION: Proving one wretched man’s guilt is secondary to creating a spectacle
This week, in the German town of Lueneburg, a 93-year-old man went on trial accused of being an accessory to 300,000 murders. Whether you welcome the unedifying sight of Oskar Groening, a man not long for this world, being hauled before a judge depends on whether you see him as a frail old man bent over a walking… Continue reading
About Me
Newspaper editor and publisher with 30-years’ experience at national and local titles in the UK and USA including the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Jewish Advocate. Editor of Jewish News (Free Weekly Newspaper of the Year 2021/22) since 2009. Columnist for The Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent and others.
Recent Posts
- OPINION: BBC evasion as policy – our public broadcaster is public in name only
- OPINION: Twelve days that changed the Middle East and shattered the illusion of Iran
- OPINION: Where have all the grown-ups gone?
- NEWS FEATURE: Jewish trauma, from Tel Aviv to Tottenham
- INTERVIEW: The peace campaigner who came to kill
GeT RICH QUICK 