By Ahsan Butt

After Barack Obama’s very-much-meh speech on the Middle East last week — where we apparently learned that the worst thing about the Israeli occupation is the “humiliation” Palestinians suffer — I tweeted that the four issues American politicians can’t be mildly critical of are guns, the military, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

By Peter Watt

We need to recognise, quickly, that the Labour party is being damaged by the cuts. For the last year the conventional wisdom has been that the cuts would politically damage the Tories and Lib Dems. Massive downturns of popularity would rattle the two parties’ collective nerves. Across the country, activists would be battered by a public baying for their blood.