How Gaza became one of the biggest issues of the local elections

Spectator Australia · Robin Simcox · Thursday 23 April 2026

How Gaza became one of the biggest issues of the local elections

As Tony Blair contested a third election in 2005, the Labour government’s popularity was in tatters. The divisions in the… The post How Gaza became one of the biggest issues of the local elections appeared first on The Spectator Australia. What to read next: Apart from Mandelson, who is Labour’s biggest freebie lover? | My shameful confession: I’m not a good baker | Trump has underestimated the Pope | Flat out: the property squeeze crushing the young

A British commentator in a British magazine's Australian edition explaining British local elections to Australians — the Spectator's colonial franchise model is a bloke in Surrey shouting at a bloke in Sydney about a bloke in Bradford. Gaza's the subject; the nostalgia is the product.

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