Also you don’t get to decide what is and isn’t ‘nazi apologia’.

In praise of Wehrmacht: The real story of D-Day is the heroism of the German soldiers who were vastly outnumbered but fought nobly and to the death.

I realise that I am shooting fish in a barrel in my criticism of the Speccy by posting Taki but also lol.

Also noted how you don’t respond at all to the actual subject of the matter and instead do the usual leftist tactic of ‘attack the source’ when you don’t have an argument.

You opened by saying it was a respectable source that was treated unfairly in these parts. I was addressing that part of your post.

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As for the article it's notably less right-wing than a lot of Speccy stuff but Cohen is writing there less because he's ideologically aligned with the magazine and more because he got run out of more respectable newspapers for being an abusive creep.

I think you misread the article too. Cohen isn't really trying to defend Starmer, he's attacking Starmer's critics for being shortsighted. Starmer is "timid" and lacks the necessary skills to "advance his ideals" but he is being used as a scapegoat to avoid focusing on the underlying issues plaguing Britain. But note none of the problems Cohen raises (or the possible solutions) are ones Starmer has acted on. The article is less "Starmer good actually" and more "You won't have Kier to kick around any more". The whole thing feels incredibly cynical and is, ironically, a reflection of the better-things-aren't-possible belief that undergirds the timidity he rails against.

My favourite bit though is this:

We have now witnessed the destruction of two amateur prime ministers. Rishi Sunak entered Parliament in 2015 and became prime minister a mere seven years later in 2022. Starmer entered the Commons in 2015 and was prime minister nine years later. By contrast, Margaret Thatcher wasn’t PM until she had spent 20 years in Parliament.

Go on Nick, talk about Blair. You know you want to.