Mark Steyn, on the National Review Online blog, ponders British antisemitism and concludes – correctly – that it has changed its character and is fast achieving a continental European-style virulence when Israel comes into the picture. Referring to Tom Paulin, the poet and BBC arts pundit who notoriously said West Bank settlers should be ‘shot dead’, he notes:

The only reference to his incitement to murder was an oblique allusion in his official BBC biography:

His polemical, knockabout style has ruffled feathers in the US, where the Jewish question is notoriously sensitive.

‘The Jewish question’? ‘Notoriously sensitive’? Is this really how they talk at the BBC these days? T S Eliot’s the least of an English Jew’s worries.

Tell us about it.