Going wherever the evidence leads
Please watch this clip from my discussion with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network where I talk about the astonishing reaction to my piece on the Charlie Gard case and what that tells us about public opinion and the role of the media. For the full video, please click here.
I spoke on WNYC radio about the Charlie Gard case. You can listen to it here.
Please join me here as I deconstruct for Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network the issues in the agonising Charlie Gard case, and explain why American involvement was not just ill-considered but inadvertently cruel.
To make oneself politically homeless may be regarded as a misfortune. To do it a second time looks like recklessness on steroids. In the Eighties and Nineties, I broke with my former comrades on the left. On a variety of issues arising from their repudiation of the western nation and its values, I challenged the orthodoxy and found myself condemned as having gone over to the dark side, otherwise known as “the right”. I concluded that the left consisted of people who denied evidence and reason in the furtherance of…
Ben Shapiro is a conservative American commentator who has become legendary in the US for his aggressive take-downs of left-wing opponents. He doesn’t just take no prisoners. He tends to vaporise his opponents with the sharpness, velocity and ferocity of his arguments. So his encounter last week with the presenter of BBC2’s Politics Live show was all the more notable. The irresistible force of Shapiro met the immovable object that is Andrew Neil. The immovable object won. After an epic tantrum, Shapiro was left tweeting feebly from the wreckage under…
I am delighted (and somewhat amazed) to report that I have won the UK Bar Council’s print and on-line Legal Reporting Award for my piece on the tragic Charlie Gard case last July. The piece was first published as a blog post here and the Sunday Times published an updated version that weekend here. You can read the Bar Council’s press release about this award here.
Please join me here as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network why my post on the Charlie Gard case went super-viral, the implications of the Arab Temple Mount riots as the Jewish people prepare for the Ninth of Av fast to mourn the destruction of the ancient Jewish Temple on that site, and the sensational revelations in Washington DC that the mainstream media is doing its best to ignore. Not for the first time, gross media failings are the thread that links all these issues…
My piece on the Charlie Gard case, which went super-viral on social media, has now been republished by the London Sunday Times. That article itself is behind a paywall. But of course you can still read the original piece here.
The agonising case of Charlie Gard, the 11-month old baby dying from a rare form of mitochondrial disease, is edging towards a no less agonising conclusion. Today, his parents agreed that he should be transferred from Great Ormond Street hospital in London (GOSH) to a hospice to spend there his final period of life. The hospice was a compromise. The parents have been fighting the plan for their baby’s end of life care just as they had fought the decision that he should no longer be kept alive. They wanted…
Join me here as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network the Arab attack at Temple Mount, the tragic case in Britain of baby Charlie Gard and the anti-democratic and deeply unpatriotic attempts by Remainers to stop Brexit in its tracks.
