A Strangely Jewish Affair …
By Max Musson: As a political writer who often has to cover issues that hinge upon the racial, religious or ethnic background of individuals in the public eye, and the connections between individuals that are often otherwise concealed, it is rather bemusing to find myself reporting on the spat that is currently taking place between Ed Miliband and the Labour Party on the one hand and the Daily Mail on the other, in which various…
Leftism, the Ethnic Minority Obsession and the Road to Tyranny
By David Yorkshire: One of the seminal texts of left-liberalism is John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. In it, Mill speaks of what he terms “the tyranny of the majority” within an ostensibly democratic society, whereby minority groups who do not fit within the norms of society established by the majority are oppressed by that majority: “…the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority: the people, consequently, may desire to oppress…