At this point, it’s hard to think of a single political quarter, left or right, that wouldn’t welcome comprehensive reform of London’s embattled police force. Yet it endures.
Kedourie was right: the end of Ottoman rule was a disaster for minorities
Events in Parliament Square, and the blockade of Tower Bridge last weekend, are simply the latest manifestation of extremism on display since 7 October attack on Israel.
Simply put, the volume of migration in the 20th Century was at a level communities could absorb and the economy required. Migrants like my grandparents willingly integrated into British society and shared its values.
In each Budget, significant savings have been included, then within a few weeks into the new financial year, they become impossible due to the lack of political will.
I believe it shows that over the last 18 years, the Forum has helped to build much better links between the Muslim and Jewish communities of Greater Manchester.
My son went to bed last week asking: “Daddy, why does everyone hate us?” No child in a civilised society should ever have to ask such a question.
According to a YouGov poll conducted only six days after the atrocities, a staggering 49 per cent of 18–24-year-olds in the UK ‘don’t know’ whether Hamas is a terrorist organisation. This is obscene and abhorrent.
Slowly but surely, British people from all faiths and backgrounds are being confronted by a minority who hate the liberal democratic west of which their country is an integral part and to which it has contributed so much.
The current minimal-confrontation approach too often seems to leave officers tacitly enforcing the codes of the ugliest and most violent sections of society.
First, Islamist extremism will use woke like a human shield. Then, once it has exhausted its purpose, it will cast aside, like that LGBT flag last Saturday.
Doing so will be immensely difficult and will involve fighting in densely populated urban areas, creating enormous risks for both the Israel Defence Forces forces and Gazan civilians.
Hamas’ supporters or the authorities? Sunak needs to show that offenders will be prosecuted – and, if the situation deteriorates, to push for march bans, shuffle his Cabinet and show an all-party front with Starmer.
As the Foreign Secretary noted, “Britain without its Jews is not Britain”. The Jewish contribution to national life – past, present and future – needs recognising and defending if countries want to keep its benefits.