The Chairman of the 2017 Manchester Arena public inquiry, Sir John Saunders, has just delivered the final volume of his report and he doesn’t mince his words. This new final section focuses on whether the security services and counter terrorism police could have done more to prevent Islamist extremist Salman Abedi murdering 22 mostly young […]
Shamima Begum, the British-born teenager who threw her lot in with Islamic State terrorists, will remain stateless and incarcerated in a Kurdish-run detention camp in north-east Syria. For now at least. Yesterday, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a UK court that deals with nationality issues related to national security, upheld a decision by then Home […]
‘Jews don’t count’, they say, except perhaps in the malign statistics of hatred. Last week’s Shawcross review of the Prevent programme shone a light on just how pernicious and deep-seated antisemitism is among those judged to be at risk of becoming terrorists. Shawcross looked at a number of ‘Channel‘ referrals and was alarmed by what […]
It’s always, they tell you, ‘well-intentioned’. That’s the thing to know about surveillance. It’s always conducted for your safety, your security, for community cohesion. China has become synonymous with surveillance. In Xinjiang, in Hong Kong, and all across the territories in the control of the Chinese Communist Party, surveillance is part of everyday life. People […]
In the two weeks since an officer in London’s Metropolitan Police admitted to being a serial rapist, politicians and commentators have called for the Met to undergo “root-and-branch” reform. Beyond the abhorrent case of the now-former police constable David Carrick, Met commissioner Mark Rowley has revealed that London currently has a damaged and ineffective police […]
‘I used to play in the park at night. If you went to play in the park at night now, you wouldn’t come back, would you?’ That was the damning verdict of Paul from The Wirral when we asked about local community spaces. He wasn’t alone. Laura from Sheffield told us she wouldn’t dare take […]
One of the interesting outcomes of the 2020 Abraham Accords is that this year the United Arab Emirates announced it was going to start teaching its children about the Holocaust. Until now, many children in the Arab world have not been taught about the genocide which so shames the West, mainly because it involves Jews […]
Are incels terrorists? The label ‘incel’ is short for ‘involuntarily celibate’ and embraces feelings ranging through sadness to despair to murderous rage, predominantly experienced by young men who feel they are denied sexual fulfilment by a real or imagined social or physical impairment. The question of whether or not they qualify as terrorists has been […]
The National Union of Students (NUS) like so many virtue signalling organisations, vows to be a place of tolerance and anti-racism – except if you are Jewish. Amid the antisemitic incidents uncovered in yet another inquiry (there have been eight reports since 2005, such is the scale of the issue and the union’s apparent inability to […]
Shamima Begum, the British Isis bride now stateless in Syria, is once again colonising the airwaves. Her latest attempt at rehabilitation is captured in a BBC podcast series titled I’m not a Monster. The first broadcast took place yesterday, where journalist Josh Baker promised a no-holds barred examination over coming weeks into what motivated a […]
We are fortunate in this country to have some truly superb Holocaust educators. The Holocaust Educational Trust does a brilliant job in teaching children – and adults – about the worst genocide in history. And Holocaust Memorial Day acts as a national remembrance. But while it is vital that people are taught about the worst […]
With police announcing that the firebombing of a migrant processing facility was motivated by extreme right-wing ideology, there will be renewed concerns over Britain’s fastest-growing threat. Andrew Leak, the 66-year-old who hurled up to three incendiary devices at the site in Dover, is believed to have later taken his own life. What’s particularly concerning is […]
It’s easy to lose track of world events these days, especially if you’re on a tracker mortgage. However, not enough has been made of Liz Truss’ visit to the United States last week and the question of our much vaunted ‘special relationship’. I’m not well qualified to speak about a post-Brexit trading partnership with the […]
Leicester has traditionally been regarded as a paragon of social cohesion – the truest interfaith success story in modern Britain. It was only a few weeks ago that the University of Leicester announced plans to hold a series of events to celebrate the city’s immigration-induced diversity. John Williams from the university’s Unit for Diversity, Inclusion […]
Ronald Reagan was right. Freedom is not free. Forty years after his presidency, the foul attack on Salman Rushdie reveals an era where freedom has been bargained away by the West in search of an accommodation with medieval fanatics who hate us. The pen is not mightier than the sword when the shield around it […]
What is extreme hatred of Britain? Yesterday, enduring a five-hour rail journey to London – a first class customer on third-world infrastructure – I might have strayed over the line myself. Today, leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has suggested that this is the nebulous benchmark for referral to our counter terrorism Prevent programme. This had predictable […]
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