Michael Hallihane
@michael_hal
Semper Veritas
The liberal consensus is cohered around an outdated paradigm of anti-racism, anti-fascism. It doesn't know how to deal with intolerance, religious fundamentalism and sectarianism which are the real challenges to societal cohesion today. We're in a spiral with a clueless elite.
Macron is showboating on Palestine to avoid dealing with the social disintegration of France. It's pure opportunism. Gavin Mortimer spectator.co.uk/article/france…
The great Rosie Holt is onto something here. There are quite a few old people I see in the chemist when I go to pick up prescriptions. I've always suspected them of something. Now I know what it is I suspect them of. Thanks, Rosie!
Woman explains how the elderly who support Palestine at protests are terrorists.
What does it say about our society that a bright 26-year-old from Derbyshire got rich having sex with 1,000 men? I met Bonnie Blue and explore the grim intersection between influencer culture and a generation raised on porn. @thetimes thetimes.com/article/4a3b5b…
David Mencer actually claimed that the UN had refused to distribute aid because they wanted to be assisted by Hamas. Honestly, at a certain point continuing to believe the Israeli government line merely proves you are brainwashed.
Brave and extraordinarily patient attempt by @bbcnickrobinson to make Israeli spokesperson David Mercer face the facts through careful questioning in @BBCr4today interview. Utterly frustrating but Mencer’s long pauses before replying & rising fury told their own story #r4today
Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.
Wrote for @unherd about signs of collapse in gender ideology, and how some philosophers are attempting to hold back the tide. unherd.com/2025/07/is-thi…
My latest: Trump opened the door to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. He needs to close it and stop feeding the Israeli right's fantasies of conquest, or he will never achieve the peace he claims to want. Please read the whole thing. Gift link below.
Very double edged for people to claim that demanding Israel stop killing and starving people, as well as stealing land is antisemitic. In fact, I would say the accusation of antisemitism in this case is itself antisemitic.
It’s time for Israel to put a clear public proposal on the table - end of the war, return of all the hostages, significant increase of aid to the people of Gaza and an end to Hamas rule. It is a proposal the vast majority of the people of Israel support. It is a proposal the…
Israeli journalist @HavivRettigGur: After 22 months of false or misleading reports in Western media, Gaza is now actually approaching catastrophic levels of hunger. “We are very close to real, actual, desperate hunger in Gaza… It's hard to convince Israelis of that because…