Friday, January 25, 2008

Peter Hain.

I really cannot rejoice that the appalling Peter Hain has been disenthroned. It is not that I am unhappy that he is departed - far from it - it is just that I am sufficiently experienced and cynical to recognise that this leaves an opening for one more heinous, political wannabee to be thrust into the limelight.

Lessons From Moses.

Lessons from Moses.   (Photo: Getty/iStock) Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish perspective on the choosi...