http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com where the word is out .... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Shallow polemic on pro-Israel lobby David Cesarani Comment is free guardian.co.uk) Hitherto I've kept very quiet about the row which (inevitably) followed Monday's Channel 4 TV Dispatches programme. Peter Oborne did everything possible to provoke viewers on both sides of the divide and even  as a "shallow polemic" his show succeeded ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/11/19/boo-hoo-so-there-is-no-jewish-plot/ A "very important" letter from Rabbi Isaac Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Ireland, appealing for help to expose the Nazi persecution of German Jews has just been sold at auction for 3000 Euros  - about £2,600. It was written on 01 May 1933 to Hugh Kennedy, the Chief Justice of Ireland ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/11/18/the-cost-of-jewish-life/ Believe it! Don’t believe it! But all of us Victor Meldrew types were left open–mouthed to learn that The Israeli - Palestinian trade union Association insists that Palestinian workers and unions don’t support boycott, divestment and sanctions, (BDS) campaigns. Both the Jewish Chronicle and Stuart Palmer of ICAN and COHAV reported ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/11/15/how-palestine-solidarity-turned-to-jelly/ The sort of mid-Autumn day which makes poets warble saw us wend our way to Birmingham for the saddest, most tender of family reunions. The diminished ranks of the Wood and Hawkins families were gathering to pay tribute to two family matriarchs who had been loved nearly as much by assembled ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/11/13/the-toast-of-birmingham/   I don’t know what the rest of the world was doing last Saturday night but Brian and I beat a trail to Cineworld, Bolton to see Bright Star, Jane Campion’s much vaunted bio-pic of John Keats and his love for Fanny Brawne. “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/11/12/bright-star-falls-to-earth/ Today I’ve been to the shops and I bought a bottle of Kedem grape juice, several Tivall vegetarian items, Yarden hummus and aubergine dip. All the produce had travelled from Israel and was on display at Morrisons Supermarket, Whitefield, Bury, North Manchester despite a fusillade of empty threats and bully-boy tactics ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/11/08/miles-of-israeli-smiles-at-morrisons/ September 1973 and I travel from Sheffield to Manchester by train to start a new job. It’s a journey I know well but my notoriously poor sense of space and direction kicks in and I get off the bus from Piccadilly Station at the wrong ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/11/07/out-of-eden-in-london-and-manchester/ I’m unsure who’s smarter – former US Vice President, Al Gore or US Jewish lawyer, Professor Alan Dershowitz. There’s probably very little in it! No matter, while Gore captured the hearts and imagination of the thinking world with his documentary about climate change, Dershowitz has ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/10/31/israel-%e2%80%93-the-other-inconvenient-truth/   “But soon a wonder came to light, That showed the rogues they lied: The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.” Oliver Goldsmith, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog If I use a phrase like ‘fraternal lodge’ or ‘freemasonry’,  many readers will react badly. They ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/10/29/the-dog-it-was-that/ It’s about 18 months since I last visited The  Octagon Theatre, Bolton. It was to see a fairly pedestrian production of   Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Now I find that Miller’s equally brilliant All My Sons has been hijacked by local Israel haters as part of ... http://alwaysperfectlywrite.today.com/2009/10/28/seven-jewish-children-numberless-jewish-traitors/