Melanie Phillips on her Substack assesses U.S. President Joe Biden’s response to Hamas’ October 7 pogrom. Phillips questions why, after initial support, the U.S. has not used its military apparatus against Iran and why Biden is seeking to trip up Israel’s momentum by incessantly demanding a humanitarian “pause” in Israel’s counterattack.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


