David Swift

David Swift is a historian and author. His latest book, Scouse Republic, is out now.

Israel won’t accept Tony Blair’s Gaza plan

27 Sep 2025

Purple Aki revealed Liverpool’s uneasy racial politics

28 Aug 2025

Gaza offensive deepens rift within IDF

09 Aug 2025

Occupying Gaza won't bring back the hostages

05 Aug 2025

The tide is turning on recognizing Palestinian statehood

25 Jul 2025

Netanyahu will survive ultra-Orthodox mutiny

15 Jul 2025

Is Netanyahu ready to alienate his far-Right coalition?

08 Jul 2025

Iran ceasefire hasn’t dimmed anti-Netanyahu mood in Israel

25 Jun 2025

New Gaza offensive is turning Netanyahu’s allies against him

20 May 2025

Is Israel about to take permanent control of Gaza?

06 May 2025

Netanyahu's ambitions are moving beyond Gaza

29 Apr 2025

Can Netanyahu survive yet more corruption allegations?

23 Apr 2025

Netanyahu needs Trump's help on Washington visit

07 Apr 2025

New Gaza campaign will not destroy Hamas

25 Mar 2025

Israel's aid block threatens precarious Gaza ceasefire

03 Mar 2025

Hamas' hostage handovers are designed to anger Israel — and Trump

21 Feb 2025

Israeli hostage standoff makes return to war inevitable

12 Feb 2025

Trump's Gaza plan exposes Labor's naive foreign policy

06 Feb 2025

Trump’s plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza will divide the Middle East

27 Jan 2025

Israel’s hostage deal is doomed to collapse

18 Jan 2025

MAGA embraces the vaccine-autism theory

13 Dec 2024

Ireland’s migration election

28 Nov 2024

Israel’s Haaretz boycott is another attack on liberal norms

26 Nov 2024

Has Israel given up on returning the hostages?

11 Nov 2024

Yahya Sinwar's death puts Israeli hostages in fresh danger

18 Oct 2024

Why US leaders are falling out of love with Netanyahu

10 Oct 2024

Israel’s war with Lebanon has already begun

23 Sep 2024

Israeli trade unions could drive out Netanyahu

02 Sep 2024

Is the far-Right really behind Southport demonstrations?

01 Aug 2024

Golan Heights attack could provoke an Israel-Hezbollah conflict

28 Jul 2024

Israel’s hard Right set to gain more power over police

19 Jun 2024

Benny Gantz’s resignation means an election is unavoidable

10 Jun 2024

Netanyahu’s new survival strategy: hold an election

04 Jun 2024

Netanyahu’s Rafah invasion is dividing Israel

09 May 2024

A new culture war is brewing over autism and ADHD

07 Apr 2024

The return of the Irish Right

27 Mar 2024

Government resignations signal early exit for Netanyahu

26 Mar 2024

Israelis push for Netanyahu to resign

22 Feb 2024

Israel is turning against Netanyahu — but can’t get rid of him

24 Jan 2024

Is Israel about to break with America?

19 Jan 2024

Should we welcome a ‘cure’ for autism?

06 Dec 2023

The hostages’ fate is splitting Israel

22 Nov 2023

Israeli liberals have been radicalised by this war

02 Nov 2023

Why Hamas’s attack will backfire

08 Oct 2023

Steely Dan: the original postliberals of pop

16 May 2023

Israel is a cautionary tale for the Anglo-American Left

03 Mar 2023

Autism: the latest front in the culture wars

20 Jan 2023

Crime is not a ‘Right-wing’ issue

23 Aug 2022

The Left is wrong about housing

30 Nov 2021

How not to be a white anti-racist

25 Oct 2019