Guardian article on the latest Israel/Palestine crisis is very informative. Not so much about the crisis but more about the Guardian/western media perspective.  Beaumont carefully describes the fears of the Israeli Occupying power and then includes small factoids from the Palestinian perspective: much ado about masters and then also slaves have a tough time.

Werst still are the lies. The statement that "the fear is equally palpable among Palestinians" is extremely dishonest. First of all, Israelis fear knife attacks, the Palestinians fear aerial bombing and house demolishing, Peter. Secondly, most of the "Palestinians" in this story are Israeli citizens and should be treated as citizens in a real country.

Fascinating story on ITV tonight about Brittan allegations and deputy Labour leader Tom Watson. The TV version was even better with a very aggressive attack on Watson (old UK TV is dead, it's now all Fox news-style). Watson has committed the fatal flaw of attacking a member of the British establishment. That will not be allowed. The establishment media who have attacked Corbyn at every point will use this as an excuse to continue. The new Labour leadership will be crushed.

The beautiful example was this quote form Lord Brittan's brother: "I was brought up to believe the English police were very special and that they didn’t make allegations... until they thought they had a cast iron case in which they could take to court,"

So the police are very special and do not murder black people or Brazilian tube passenger? And have cast iron cases such as the Birmingham Six and the Maguire family?  English readers use Google.

But even better is that the police are "English" ... not "British" ... which was temporarily essential after the Scottish vote.

I have a confession to make.  I'm not angry about this. I'm delighted. Being Irish I relish in the fact that the pretend UK/Britain thing is becoming transparently ridiculous.  When Irish or Scottish people ignore the UK we're just troublemakers; but when the British establishment does it - it's dead.