Danny Feldman

We have taken up the case of @ezralevant, a Gold member of the @SpeechUnion who has been refused entry to the UK to attend the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally tomorrow. After his ESTA was refused, he paid £1,000 to the Home Office to expedite a visa application because his flight is tonight. To date, the Home Office still hasn't responded. We hope our intervention will prompt it to issue a visa in time for him to catch his flight. Refusing Mr Levant a visa would be a clear breach of his rights. He's not a “far right agitator intent on coming to the UK to spew [his] extremist views”, which is how Sir Keir Starmer's described those who've been blocked from entering the UK for tomorrow’s protest. He is a Canadian commentator and journalist who has no criminal convictions and has never advocated violence, intimidation, discrimination or terrorism and rejects any assertion that he is ‘far-right’ or would make threats or spread hate. In reality, he simply holds views that the Prime Minister disagrees with. Perhaps it’s his outspoken support for Israel in its ongoing war with Hamas that has raised a red flag. Refusing Mr Levant a visa would be particularly egregious, given that Hasan Piker, the far left American political activist who has incited violence against Jews, has not been blocked from entering the UK. He's due to speak at at @unherd event on 5th June. Is it one rule for outspoken supporters of Israel, Prime Minister, and another for outspoken supporters of the Palestinian cause? Is that because you care more about not offending Britain's Muslims than you do about not offending British Jews? We very much hope that the Home Office will issue Mr Levant with a visa immediately and allow him to travel to the UK this evening.

Thoughts from a Labour MP: “We have to face up to the fact every single one of them is fucking useless. Andy’s strategy has been a disaster. Angela bottled it. Ed clearly a hiding to nothing. Wes AWOL. God knows what Catherine West is doing. Not quite sure how we ended up here.”

I have to live among people who voted for this nonsense. How about fixing the bins

Vote for our 2 or 3 candidates in every one of our 24 wards 🗳️🩵 @ReformUKBarnet @reformparty_uk #londonboroughofbarnet

VAT on private schools. Sounded good. New report says cost Scottish econ 900 jobs, £60m and counting. Pupil numbers down 9%. If this was social engineering it's working. If money raising, not so much.

My son has waited seven months for his driving test. It has now been cancelled with a week’s notice. @DVSAgovuk is an embarrassment and a disgrace, and an example of why state monopolies do almost everything badly, and why big govt is a disaster for citizens.

The U.K. explained in two headlines.

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🚨 Reform UK is standing candidates in more wards than any other party in the upcoming May 7 elections. Just as we fielded more candidates than any other party last year - a history making event. Few appreciate just what @Nigel_Farage has built in the blink of an eye. Huge congratulations and thanks to our candidates, wonderful branch officers and amazing team who made this happen Bring on May 7, let’s put the uniparty out of business! 🇬🇧

Wow. Must watch. Heckler shouts Free Palestine during German Chancellor Merz speech. He confidently responds with “WE STAND WITH ISRAEL” followed by powerful words. Crowd erupts in applause! He knows that “Free Palestine” is the new “Heil Hitler”

Drone coverage in golf continues to evolve

This is probably the most convincing chart you'll see today. Why is this simple concept so difficult for the left to understand?

@TheExtraInch Best Spurs pod around when you talk football👍. Worst pod on the internet when you talk politics🤣.

It’s nine years today since the release of the first ever episode of The Extra Inch. In that episode we discussed our initial expectations of Pochettino, his Bielsa-upbringing, his tactical tinkering, and the enigma: Moussa Sissoko.

Awareness of mental health and neurodivergence has gone so far, that we need to do "You're normal, mate" awareness Support workers going house to house, telling young people that they are not unwell, strange or even very interesting. They'll hate it, but someone needs to do it

@afneil @TimesRadio Or maybe this is exactly the outcome Hamas leaders wanted. They knew the backlash locally would be devastating. They didn't care from their palaces in Qatar. The real outcome they wanted was the Western response they got.

My @TimesRadio monologue on the anniversary of October 7th: It’s two years to the day since that barbaric attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel, when Jews were murdered, raped, mutilated, tortured and taken brutally hostage in the worst single atrocity inflicted on the Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.  Hamas must have known that Israel’s retaliation would be merciless and that the people of Gaza would bear the brunt since Hamas forces and bases were embedded in their schools, hospitals, shops and homes, making civilian casualties inevitable.  Perhaps they had hopes — even indications — that their Islamist allies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Iranian theocracy in Tehran, would come to their aid in a united front to weaken the Jewish state and put it on the defensive. If so, it was a miscalculation for the ages.  For the consequence of that invasion on October 7th 2023 has been to turn Israel into the Middle East’s superpower, crippling its historic enemies in the process. Not only has Israel destroyed Hamas, it has severely degraded Hezbollah, humiliated Iran, whose military leadership, missile and nuclear programmes — plus its regional reputation — have been seriously damaged, and it's overseen the collapse of the militantly anti-Israeli Assad regime in Syria. Game, set and match to Israel, you might say. Its military predominance in the region has never been greater, its enemies never in more disarray.  And yet, and yet. It may have won the war but it’s in danger of losing the peace. The death and destruction of Gaza, a relentless retribution meted out by Israeli forces which, even two years on, might not yet be over, has turned much of the world, appalled by what happened to it two years ago, against Israel.  It is becoming isolated politically, there is a growing international consensus against it, a new generation hostile to it which, in turn, has led to increased antisemitism and a renewed Islamist radicalism, as the anti-Israel protests that have swept Western nations illustrate all too dismally.  Anger at Israel has spread from the Muslim world to Europe and even to its most important ally — the only one that really matters — America, where a burgeoning student movement, a large chunk of the Democratic Party and even a growing part of President Trump’s MAGA movement are now all downright hostile to Israel.  So Israel is paying a price for its regional supremacy, a price that could haunt it for years to come. The pictures of carnage coming out of Gaza have seen to that. You do not need to swallow Hamas propaganda exaggerating the scale of the killing or go along with the global Left’s smear of genocide to know that something terrible and inhuman has been unfolding in Gaza — and unfolding for too long.  Israel is now short of allies. The idea of Palestinian statehood is now back on the agenda with more adherents than ever, even though it cannot be properly defined. A young generation in the West has been sparked into a political awareness by events in Gaza which it will not quickly forget. And, worst of all, there is every risk of a new cadre of jihadists emerging from the Gaza rubble.  Of course Israel was within its rights to retaliate — retaliate hard. Of course those students and older protestors who should know better should be ashamed of themselves for carrying Hamas and Hezbollah flags and mouthing vile anti-Semitic chants. Of course there are too many grandstanding politicians who know nothing.  But two years on from that fateful day it is time for Israel to change course — for the current one is doing it no favours. Its enemies have been largely vanquished as never before. So it can afford to take stock.  The path to even a semblance of peace will not be easy. Mr Trump is optimistic. I’m not so sure. I hope the President is right and I am wrong. The important point is that it is time for a victorious Israel to give peace a chance — and not to be the one to blame if that chance is squandered.

Starmer has humiliated Britain. In a war between Israel and Hamas, started by Hamas, chosen to be waged in Gaza by Hamas, with babies and children used as human shields by Hamas, Starmer has rewarded Hamas. And with rewards like this, why should we expect Hamas to return the hostages and end the war? To our friends in Israel, I can only say that Starmer is deeply unpopular in UK. His behaviour is a cowardly myopic attempt to placate the Far Left and Islamist vote. He will be defeated, along with his sick ideology, at the next election.

There are going to be comments about the targeting of Hamas leaders in Doha, suggesting that Hamas was open to a deal with Israel. Hamas had 700 days to end this war and release the hostages. It chose to hold onto hostages as Gaza was destroyed in war. It wanted 2 million Gazans to suffer so that its leaders in Doha could relax in nice hotels and eat well on fancy dinners. Hamas chose this path. It chose October 7. It chose to murder 1,000 people and take 250 hostages, including children. It chose to murder the Bibas children. It could have released them immediately. It chose every part of this path. It reaps what is sowed. It wanted to drag out hostage talks and release several people at a time. I remember the proposals in 2024 that Hamas would release a few people a week for years...keeping Israel in limbo begging for more hostages. Hamas thought it held the cards in Doha. It thought backing from two US allies (Doha and Ankara) would get it the deal it wanted. In fact Ankara was calling for a ceasfire the first day. Hamas felt it had won. Now it found out.

@fullback03 If he was 24 you might be right. At 27, less than 2 years on his contract, never played in Europe or in a particularly good team and no other clubs interested, Spurs offer is reasonable.

These figures are mad. I mean I know levy likes a deal but Eze is a £80-90m player and potentially could go higher if he has a big season.