Forum or Against’em?
By Max Musson: It was with a certain amount of surprise and intrigue that I heard the words “Hello, I’m Russell Jenkins, from the Mail on Sunday …” I was on the telephone at the time, speaking to one of my closest friends, Mike Woodbridge, and during the course of our conversation Mike had noticed someone coming down his garden path and had opened his front door to find out what they wanted. It was…
Encountering Antisemitism
By Max Musson: Since the Charlie Hebdo shootings and the siege of the kosher supermarket in Paris, the authorities on both side of the Channel have gone into overdrive in pandering to Jewish sensibilities, as if the issue of security in the face of Islamic terrorism revolves solely around the security needs of Jews and so much so, that the needs of the rest of us don’t really warrant attention. We have seen the Prime Minister, David…
Je ne suis pas Charlie
By Max Musson: As the dust begins to settle around the offices of Parisian satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’, on Rue Nicholas Appert, and the French police continue their search for the perpetrators of yesterday’s blood-bath, it seems as though the whole media have gone into overdrive in an effort to convince us of two things: That we should mourn those slaughtered as ‘champions of free speech’ and all values quintessentially French; and that we should…