JC: Will Luxon Bed With His Lefty Mates?

Prime Minister Luxon appears to find himself troubled over whether to recognise Palestine as a state. He is mulling over whether to get into bed with his lefty mates who have already done so, namely Albanese in Australia, Carney in Canada, Starmer in the UK and Macron in France. These are all weak leaders who make an art out of virtue signalling. They operate in a way that gives them a sense of moral superiority.

Brendan O'Neill: Rewarding fascism

Today’s recognition of the State of Palestine is virtue-signalling at its most dangerous and dumb.

So now we know what it takes to become a state: the murder of Jews. Rape, kill and kidnap Jews and seven months later, the leaders of Ireland, Spain and Norway will recognise your statehood. That’s the lesson of today’s coordinated spectacle of virtue-signalling in Dublin, Madrid and Oslo: pogroms work. The butchery of civilians gets results. Fascism has its rewards. This is ‘diplomacy’ at its most dangerous.