If you have had to phone the police recently and felt that they didn’t do enough to help, have you considered that they might have more pressing issues to attend to, like maybe the language used by performers on the Glastonbury stage?

Following Kneecap’s anti-Israel media blitz and ensuing condemnation from politicians and prosecutors, another contender for manufactured outrage beckons. Bob Vylan, a London punk rap duo, played the Glastonbury stage last weekend and led the crowd in loud chants of “death to the IDF”.

The backlash has been swift and predictable. The duo has had their US visas revoked, been dropped by their agents, lost festival bookings, and now prosecution is on the table.

But forgive me, and anyone else, if I don't care a jot what Bob Vylan happened to say on a festival stage.

Kneecap's crimes of terror? Waving a flag while Britain arms a genocide

On Monday, the IDF killed 74 people. With 30 left dead from a bomb dropped on a seaside café, and 23 Palestinians shot down while seeking food. The number of children killed by the IDF is over the 50,000 mark, not counting those children who have been maimed, displaced,........

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