Jake Wallis Simons
Writer at Notes on the New Radicalism
Columnist at Freelance
Telegraph columnist, broadcaster, foreign correspondent, Substacker. Author of 'Israelophobia' (Telegraph book of year). New book 'Never Again?' out Sept 2025
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2 days ago |
yahoo.com | Jake Wallis Simons
Sometimes the best policies are the ones that produce the shrillest wails from the Left. Such may be the case with Trump’s latest travel ban, which by rights should spark serious soul-searching in Britain. Overnight, the President announced restrictions on the citizens of 12 countries.
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telegraph.co.uk | Jake Wallis Simons
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Jake Wallis Simons
Believe it or not, six weeks from today is the 40th anniversary of Live Aid. For most people, the images that lodge in the mind – aside from the razzamatazz of the “feed the world” finale – are those of starving Ethiopian toddlers with distended bellies, stick-thin limbs and flies spotting their eyes and lips. Up to a million dead. Two-and-a-half million displaced. Two hundred thousand orphans.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Jake Wallis Simons
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yahoo.com | Jake Wallis Simons
Remember Donald Trump’s vow that there would be “all hell to pay” if Hamas hadn’t released all the hostages by the time he took office? What happened to that? Four months later and for all his tough talk, the president is slumping into a Biden crouch. His envoy, Steve Witkoff, is poised to unveil a revised Israel-Hamas ceasefire proposal amid optimistic leaks, mainly from sources in the United States, that a larger deal may be in the offing.
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Trump appears to be selling Israel down the river.
🇺🇸🇮🇷☢️Scoop: U.S. presented Iran with nuclear deal proposal. The Iranian are expected to give their response in the coming days. My story on @axios https://t.co/jNzINrJXxK
Gary Lineker says: “Israel say it’s self-defence, but really? Self-defence against what now?” Er, he seems to have forgotten October 7? Mind you, it never really registered for him; on that day, all he tweeted was “super Spurs are top of the league.” https://t.co/ZKHqkhsQLk
The most galling quote from this new Gary Lineker interview: “Yes, Israelis have a right to defend themselves. But it appears that Palestinians don’t.” As of October 7 was an act of self-defence. What wilful ignorance! That’s what ideology does to you. https://t.co/ZKHqkhsQLk
