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It's ethnic and rooted in the historic emergence of the ideas of nationalism, in the late 19th century and events that took place between about 1880 to 1948. The history goes back more than two and a half thousand years, but the relevant history goes back to the latter decade of the 1800's and...

Live TV and video from a couple of hours ago, showing literally hundreds of rockets still being fired by Hamas. Earlier a Sky news crew visited one of the communities attacked on Saturday. IDF soldiers were still going house to house finding the bodies of murdered people and searching for booby...

That's appalling whataboutary false equivalence and a total distortion of reality. The vast majority of the unfortunate Palestinian deaths that have occurred, have been as a direct result and consequence of violent actions directed at predominately civilian Israeli targets. You can accuse the...

Sky TV News, ran an unedited live stream yesterday evening, following the pro-Palestinian March in London. [Edit: Obviously I cannot provide a link to a live, rolling broadcast, that isn't available on the Sky player] It’s been reported that something like 5,000 took part. It lasted for about...

It isn’t just reports, there a videos circulating on social media of the bodies of the kidnap victims being paraded and abused, with crowds cheering them on and chanting. The fate of the German girl with dual Israeli nationality, is horrifying. Seized with others from the festival, reportedly...

So what do you suggest would be a proportionate response ? .

I agree that Israel has made a rod for its own back over the last 30 years or so, particularly with the settlement issues. They could have saved themselves an awful lot of trouble, if they had made a concerted effort to accommodate and try and win the trust of the Palestinians many decades ago...

They've cut it down to only 6 platforms now. With the level of surrounding commercial development proposed, it could likely end up with completely eliminating any potential for future expansion of the HS2 side of the station. HS2 and its supporting infrastructure, including the stations, was...

Sadly, there's no chance of that with Hamas vowed to the complete destruction and removal of the Israeli nation. They have a total grip on Gaza, leaving no moderate voices of any significance or influence Hezbollah and other militant islamist groups have the same aim. They have no desire for...

Bergamo airport (Orio) only became known as Milan-Bergamo, when Ryanair set up camp there, about 20 years ago.

I saw it "in the flesh" at the Fully Charged Live show, at Farnborough in 2021. Cute and quite appealing, but very expensive.

There's no question about Gatwick being a "London Airport". The modern day Gatwick was originally built in the late 1950's (opened in 1958) specifically as London's 2nd airport, replacing several older, smaller London area airports. It replaced the last remnants of Croydon airport, which had...

The government are not involved in providing the infrastructure. That is entirely private industry activity. What government have failed to do, is take a more proactive part in facilitating the expansion of this sector, for example, by offering exceptional tax breaks and financial incentives to...

Once they've cleared existing stock, you won't see many new '73 plate Model 3's for a while. They've paused production, while the factory lines are being converted to build the new Model 3. (note: the UK gets all its Model 3's and Y's from Shanghai, China) The same will happen with the Model Y...

Well, yachts with full and fin keels enter the marina lock at that point. Southampton Water provides a maintained depth of not less than 12.6 metres chart datum up to the marina’s entrance channel. The lock is then approached by a well-marked short channel that has a maintained depth of 1.5...