History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme – and we can hear the echoes of the Weimar Republic in our current crisis. In this climate, the intellectual and cultural energy is, as it was then, with the most radical and transgressive forces. Faced with assault from both radical right and revolutionary left, the political home for the middle – the Centre party – could not hold. Anti-Semitism is the new normal in contemporary Britain – synagogues daubed with faeces, Jewish students shunned by contemporaries on campus, Jewish goods boycotted, Jewish bodies assaulted. Musicians call for the killing of Jews from the Glastonbury stage and politicians supportive of the Jewish state are targeted by thugs.