Foaming at the mouth

It might have done Parliament a favour had PC Plod looked a little more responsive following Wednesday’s foam-pie attack on Rupert Murdoch. The world’s media was trained on the octogenerarian media mogul and his sidekick as they gave evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee yesterday afternoon. The whole incident was somewhat overshadowed

A frightening story from Israel

An academic friend of mine, Mazher, was invited to speak at an EU-organised conference in Bethlehem last week. However, he wasn’t to reckon on the traumatic turn of events which occurred no sooner than he had arrived on Israeli soil. I don’t know quite what to make of the way the Israeli security services treated