Thorough Assessment

As John Bolton is indicted for the thing for which he called for Edward Snowden to be hanged, he might consider fleeing to Britain, where the Prime Minister reproaches the Police in the second city for their operational unwillingness to welcome one of the most violent bodies of football fans in European competition, although it is not from Europe.

That travelling riot assaulted the Police in the course of the two days that it spent smashing up Amsterdam while singing racist songs and chanting racist slogans last November. For all that its name takes me back to the red heifer and the racoon of a begowned lecturer at the turn of the century, who told me that the name of the Cock o' the North "sounds like a competition" before serving as President of the Society for Old Testament Study, Maccabi Tel Aviv is just one of those clubs.

Of course its supporters have not been banned from Birmingham, but only from Villa Park. On Thursday 6 November, there would be nothing to stop them, inbetween or alongside just doing what firms do, from demonstrating in favour of the sexual and other abuse that Itamar Ben-Gvir had proudly confirmed to have been inflicted on Greta Thunberg, of the IDF's use of self-defence as a defence to charges of raping prisoners, and of its destruction of four thousand human embryos in a clinic in Gaza, so reminiscent of Robert Bush's frauds in relation to the remains of four unborn children, but far, far, far worse.

Shabana Mahmood, a Birmingham MP, would find that Bolton easily met her English language requirement to be permitted to work in Britain. Most immigration to this country is by people who, even if not necessarily as their first language, already spoke English. That was why they wanted to come here. Indeed, their English is a great deal better than that of the Young Republican National Federation, membership of which goes up to the age of 40. No member of the offending group chat was younger than 24, and several were barely younger than JD Vance. If it is anti-Semitism that you want to attack, then this is the most serious ever anti-Semitic incident at national level in either main American party, and it is in the party that controls the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. Yet not even the ADL or AIPAC has said a word.

The photographs of these group chatters are predictably entertaining. The only thing even funnier than the vanguard elite is the master race. That they should not be punished because they were "kids" is not an indulgence extended to undergraduates who are deemed to have mourned Charlie Kirk insufficiently, and not only in the United States. If George Abaraonye deserves to be punished, then so do the "kids" in America. As for Sam Williams, the weapons found in his parents' home identify him as from a country sports background. If there did turn out to be any more than that to them, then not everyone who was crowing might like where that led. We would not be talking about 400 trials of 2000 blind wheelchair-users and octogenarian clergywomen who had silently held up signs. If the hunting and shooting Williamses of Pembury had any political dimension to their gun ownership, then either their son was in rebellion against such politics, or those politics made him look like John Woodcock. It could be either.