Oh right, we’re negotiating with Iran.

I, for one, thought the DNC’s surprise guest was going to be the Israeli actress who played Wonder Woman. I was Waiting for Gadot.

“The Jews should be denied everything as a nation but granted everything as individuals,” France’s National Assembly heard in 1789. On a growing part of the American left, the infamous offer stands. My reflections on the UCLA case and the campus anti-Israel fanatics:

Another thought on this video. Someone not on twitter pointed this out to me the other day. From Starmer on down, the new gov all look absolutely terrified and exhausted and on the back foot. It’s very strange.

Amazing Paul McCartney fact

'Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and his transforming it into X have changed American politics—but as journalism doesn’t exist, there is little serious writing about the transformation of the media landscape and what it suggests for the future': Wonderful piece by Titus Techera

The United States of America

How does he do it? He's Dominic Green, of course. (Kudos to the assigning editor as well: this is a perfect fit.): wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via WSJ Books Section

Great reporting by The Jewish Chronicle on the reality of the hostage negotiations

Excellent Roger Kimball reading list

It's not a long way to Tipperary

Great. Legalise shop lifting, knife crime, cannabis, the incite of racial hatred against Jewish people, criminal damage, illegal immigration etc. Ban tobacco.

Add to the expanding list of things that Britain once did very well and took great pride in, and then stopped doing.

If it is true that Jess Phillips - who is now a government minister - received preferential treatment in an NHS hospital because of both her status and her views on the conflict in Gaza, it would be an outrage. She needs to clarify the matter, and so does the hospital concerned.

You should subscribe today to the Washington Examiner. One of the columnists is Dominic Green. Enough said? washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/312966…

Great reporting from Gabe Kaminsky Washington Examiner

As soon as I got out of prison, I asked my English teacher for her hand in marriage, an offer she said no to. A good reminder that you can’t end a sentence with a proposition.

Insidious Hamas-appeasing headlines that imply 6 innocent yg hostages killed by Hamas on Thursday somehow died in their slumbers & were found peacefully sleeping. Do yr job @skynews @bbcnews The Washington Post CNN Report news. Sack activists.Appoint reporters. The Times and The Sunday Times shows u up

Reporter: “Whats your reaction to the six hostages found dead in Gaza” Walz: “alright…. thanks everybody”

One of many corrections to the claims made in the dumb and devious Tucker podcast