Get Rich quick

Recent Posts - page 2

• OPINION: Little fires everywhere in Labour’s grassroots

  By richardferrer on December 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Eight months after his accession, the crown barely settled on his brow, and Labour’s new leader already knows: “There’s three of us in this marriage.” The interfering ex just won’t leave him and his party alone. Sir Keir Starmer has… Read More ›

• OPINION: With Jeremy Corbyn off the hook, Labour is again a hostile environment for Jews

  By richardferrer on November 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘You kick your left-wing leader out, you let your left-wing leader in . . . ” It’s been another action-packed week of Labour hokey-cokey as the party veers inextricably towards civil war over what to do with Jeremy Corbyn. The… Read More ›

• OPINION: If Starmer is serious he’ll expel Corbyn for good

  By richardferrer on November 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Jeremy Corbyn can be accused of many things but learning from his mistakes isn’t one of them. The former Labour leader has never wanted to know what he does not know. He does not rethink, therefore he is. So don’t… Read More ›

• OPINION: The tick is nothing without the tock

  By richardferrer on October 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  My most vivid memory of my father’s parents, aside from their inability to eat spaghetti bolognaise, is the incessant tick-tock of the grandfather clock that echoed through their Whitechapel flat. I loved boasting to Grandpa Daniel and Granny Minnie that… Read More ›

• OPINION: Uighurs’ plight touches the rawest Jewish nerve

  By richardferrer on July 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  After 75 years, the two tonnes of human hair piled up to the ceiling in Auschwitz is disintegrating. Only the tightly bound children’s plaits retain their shape. The Nazis, who were big on euphemisms, called their depraved plunder “human recycling”… Read More ›

• OPINION: Jewish News is back, more energised and ambitious than ever

  By richardferrer on April 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  If like me, your sense of time is all over the place at the moment (is it April or May?), you’ll be forgiven for thinking the Jewish News is yesterday’s news. After all, just seven days ago, I wrote 600 misty-eyed words… Read More ›

• OPINION: Without the JN and JC, we’ll all feel less connected

  By richardferrer on April 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Wednesday was an emotional day for current and former employees of the Jewish News. The announcement that the newspaper – a beloved fixture in Shabbat shopping bags for 23 years – along with the Jewish Chronicle, the world’s oldest Jewish… Read More ›

• OPINION: Keep talking about it to keep it in the past

  By richardferrer on January 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Most Holocaust survivors I meet don’t live as victims. Ask and they will talk openly and honestly about the loved ones they lost and the horrors they saw and suffered, while insisting you eat half their kitchen. But for them,… Read More ›

• OPINION: The future ain’t what it used to be

  By richardferrer on December 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Car workers in Birmingham, shopkeepers in Sedgefield, market traders in Norwich, steelworkers in Sheffield, greengrocers in Great Yarmouth, fishmongers in Falmouth, bus drivers in Bolsover, waitresses in Workington. In the end, after all the fear and doubt, the message rang  far… Read More ›

• OPINION: Can everyone PLEASE stop using the ‘A’ word?

  By richardferrer on December 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Jewish community has always proudly defined itself by the contribution it makes to British life. As the Chief Rabbi emphasised this week to devastating effect, thanks to the Labour Party it is now tragically defined by antisemitism. And, quite… Read More ›

• ‹ Older Entries
• Newer Entries ›