09 October 2023 , 21:58
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Hope must not be lost
More blood will be shed and lives cruelly lost, including yet again those of innocent children and civilians, in this ferocious war between Hamas and Israel.
The unprecedented ferocity of the Israeli assault on Gaza after the unprecedented ferocity of the Hamas massacre of Israelis, including 260 at a music festival, is a horrific intensification of the decades-old conflict. With no peace process existing and zero prospect of either combatant backing down, the killing of Palestinians in large numbers in Gaza following the murder of hundreds of Israelis was dispiritingly inevitable.
Islamist extremist Hamas and the most hard-Right Government in Israel’s history are implacable foes and the victims, as ever, are people on both sides. Hope must never be abandoned but it is vanishingly small in this confrontation, inflammatory talk matched by extreme violence.
Hamas was unreservedly condemned for unspeakable atrocities but those trapped in Gaza between Hamas and the Israeli military must be spared the same fate.
Keir's Stormer
What Keir Starmer says, including on policing today to the Daily Mirror, matters hugely when the Labour leader is red hot favourite to win next year’s General Election and form a Government as Prime Minister. So when he gets to his feet at his party’s annual conference in Liverpool the country will be interested in the policies that Starmer sets out.
Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade
The decade of national renewal he envisages isn’t a one term but two term programme, Starmer hoping to win not one but two elections. And when a warring Conservative Party could lurch even further to the hard Right should it lose the first, that’s possible.
Triumphing in the first is the immediate test and when buoyant Labour looks and sounds a Government-in-waiting the change the country needs, deserves and yearns for could finally be delivered next year.
Paw performer
Owner of a labrador retriever called Nova, Rishi Sunak took in good humour having his face licked by a dog during the Downing Street visit of Daily Mirror Pride of Britain winners. It’s a licking by Labour at next year’s General Election that he really doesn’t want.