Help? Safeguard?

There is so much more to come out about that five million pounds from Christopher Harborne. Nigel Farage has had security for years, and it seems to have been effective, since he has not been murdered, unlike the far less well-known or divisive Jo Cox and Sir David Amess. No one would call George Galloway obscure or uncontroversial, but it is notable that there has been an attempt on his life, yet not on Farage's. Harborne's money, payable to Farage personally, was for something else, and the failure to register it was not an oversight. Stay tuned.

Since the protection of Farage has thankfully been so successful, then it must be from that duty that the Metropolitan Police was reassigning an extra 100 Officers "to help safeguard the Jewish community". Or what else have they been doing, and who will be doing it now? They have certainly not been defending Ishmail Hussein (we are in "say his name" territory), or a Muslim woman from a deliberate hit and run, or a Sikh woman from being raped by a white man who had thought that she was a Muslim, or 50 mosques from being attacked between June and October 2025, or a building that was being turned into a mosque but which has become only "a former synagogue" when someone has set fire to it. They will, however, have been eight times more likely to stripsearch black children, the same ones repeatedly in 30 per cent of cases, and they will be the people by whom black children were also disproportionately likely to be handcuffed, Tasered, or shot. Shot.

Anti-racist campaigners go where these is most need, and that is not where a COBRA meeting can be called, and a national emergency declared, in response to two nonfatal stabbings out of the 150 to 212 knife attacks committed per day in the United Kingdom, leading to the deployment of an extra 100 Police Officers who had apparently had nothing else to do, as well as the imposition of further obligations on universities and on cultural institutions, obligations of the kind that otherwise inspired derision from the quarters that were lauding them in this case. When a university reported that there had been no incident of antisemitism, then would that be celebrated? Not by those whose comfortable livelihoods depended on there being any amount of it. In any other circumstance, that point would be made forcefully by Kemi Badenoch, and if she finds that "It's becoming fashionable to be antisemitic at London dinner parties", then she needs to find a better social circle, or at the very least explain why she kept such company.