Calling Israel's war "genocidal" is surely antisemitic.

Rafah is where the hostages were hidden. Rafah is where the hostages were tortured. Rafah is where the hostages were executed. Where are your eyes when Jews are being slaughtered?

Last month, I put my fraying shorthand to the test in the Olympics of speed-writing. Here’s my FT Magazine account of how I fared on.ft.com/4cCie2T

I am just starting to pick it up

My first post. Wednesday Morning's great Saturn occultation by the Moon.

I'm old enough to remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.

- conditional support for US intervention: as long as the US can refrain from any “regime change”, I am happy for them to shell Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, etc., as required to support Israel. - Hamas is not fighting for national liberation for the Palestinians. - Israel is not an Apartheid state.

- unconditional support for whatever Israel decides to do in response: Israel will be rational and pragmatic because they have to be; Hamas knows full well that Israel avoids firing on civilians as far as possible. Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza.

For the record, repeating my Twitter position from last October: - unconditional condemnation for Hamas (and Hezbollah, and Ansar Allah).

Boy, four, who broke bronze age jar returns to museum in Israel

Boy, four, who broke bronze age jar returns to museum in Israel

The family watched the rare 3,500-year-old jar, believed used for wine or oil, being restored at the Hecht Museum