But I warned you here a fortnight ago that Gaza was constantly coming up on the doorstep — nationwide but especially in areas with large Muslim populations.

Canvassers told me they were enduring a tsunami of finger-jabbing and abuse on the doorstep: “Why didn’t you call for an immediate ceasefire? You’re complicit in genocide!”

For the benefit of those readers who have spent the past nine months on an Antarctic research station cut off from news of the outside world, here’s a quick round-up.

On October 7, terrorists broke out of Gaza into Israel and proceeded to murder, rape and abduct anyone they could find.

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