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After the mines, Durham sees the light

Spectacular show marks the city’s campaign to become the first UK city of culture.

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November 26, 2009 13:16

Interview: Benjamin Perl

Our chiefs can’t fix Jewish education, so I do it

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June 24, 2010 10:47

Conservative Party

He was always a maverick! High flyer Shapps takes off after politics

The former defence secretary talks about his love of aviation and how the Conservative Party can lift off again

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August 21, 2024 09:03

Former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps in the cockpit of a Typhoon jet. Credit: Ministry of Defence.

Labour Party

I now work in a Hogwarts-esque palace, says Wirral West’s new Jewish MP

Matthew Patrick, Labour’s fresh-faced MP for Wirral West, speaks to the JC

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August 5, 2024 11:13

Parliament

On welfare reform, as on Israel, is Starmer being bossed around by his backbenchers?

The Leader of the Opposition takes aim at the ‘three lawyers’ she says are driving government policy

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June 26, 2025 16:49

Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street (Image: Getty).

Chief Rabbi backs call for new hateful extremism laws

The Commission for Countering Extremism warns that groups spreading antisemitic hate go unpunished because of gaps in existing legislation

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February 24, 2021 00:00

Chief Rabbi backs call for new hateful extremism laws

Books

Robert Peston: the outsider who wants to include us all

ITN's political editor has written a thriller - with a Jewish hero. But how much is fact and how much is fiction?

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September 23, 2021 16:54

F63M1D Robert Peston meets Nick Robinson at Cheltenham Literature Festival Featuring: Robert Peston Where: Cheltenham, United Kingdom When: 10 Oct 2015

Obituary

Obituary: Beatty Orwell, Labour's oldest member

East End matriarch, Labour councillor and oldest witness to the Battle of Cable Street

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July 27, 2023 08:59

Obituary: Beatty Orwell, Labour's oldest member

Why isn’t the IRGC proscribed alongside the Wagner Group?

The Iranian terror organisation’s reach and danger is far greater than the Russian mercenary group, but we refuse to ban it

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October 12, 2023 11:25

Why isn’t the IRGC proscribed alongside the Wagner Group?

Bibi saw the promised land... but Bennett walks into history

A shared concern over Iran’s regional ambitions has brought Israel and the UAE together

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December 17, 2021 10:26

Bibi saw the promised land... but Bennett walks into history

Next three months will be 'critical' for the Jewish community, says JLC chair

As he starts his second three-year term, Jonathan Goldstein speaks to our political editor about what he aims to do

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June 4, 2020 10:24

Next three months will be 'critical' for the Jewish community, says JLC chair

Jeremy Corbyn's 'rigged system' is a template for antisemitism

Academics Matt Bolton and Frederick Harry Pitts argue the Labour leader's rhetorical weapon of choice has troubling resonances

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January 17, 2019 14:35

Jeremy Corbyn's 'rigged system' is a template for antisemitism

Security will not be enough. We must take on an ideology

We must not lose sight of the bigger picture— that Islamism targets the foundations of Western society and thought

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January 31, 2019 12:16

Security will not be enough. We must take on an ideology

Letters, January 5th

James Espir, Mervyn Shaya, Anthony Spencer, Russell Ballen, Jonathan Hoffman, Geoffrey Ben-Nathan, Eve Sacks and Lady Cocks of Hartcliffe share their views with JC readers

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December 29, 2017 12:29

The legacy of the summer of love

Danny Goldberg's new book is a personal detailed account of a golden, pivotal, period in America's history

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July 21, 2017 14:37

Travel

Slower Silesia – a cycling holiday in Poland

Nicholas Lezard saddles up to explore Poland’s beautiful but little-visited Lower Silesia region by bike

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June 19, 2024 10:43

Cyclists on a path in the Lower Silesia countryside (Photo: Alex Barlow)

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