Fightback

In view of the Bank Holiday, if Wes Streeting were still a Minister on Tuesday morning, then Keir Starmer would be too weak to sack him, and thus unfit to be Prime Minister. Of course, we already knew that. But of course, he is very well-protected. Nick Robinson offered no pushback to the dismissal of Zack Polanski as unfit to lead a party by the man who made Peter Mandelson Ambassador to the United States.

What might fall with Starmer? The attack on the right to trial by jury, and on the automatic right of appeal from the Magistrates' Court to the Crown Court? Graham Linehan exercised that latter, and like more than 40 per cent of the people who did, he won. Britain has had enough of bullying by half of one per cent of the population.

Therefore, we have hit back at the false reports that Essa Suleiman had been charged with two murders rather than three. We openly wonder, if £25 million were available for Jews, why it had not been invested in the mental health service, and whether there would be £12.5 million for Muslims, or Somalis, or however one wished to identify Ishmail Hussein. While the Metropolitan Police Commissioner says that Jews need their own police force, the rest of us look at Shomrim and wonder how it was even legal, never mind invited by the Police to participate in kicking the head of a suspect who had already been Tasered.

The claim that Suleiman had to be giving a kicking because he might have been carrying a bomb is risible, since some explosives could be detonated by impact even if that were administered by trained Police Officers, never mind by a member of the general public. That member of the general public was an enforcer for the local "community leaders" to whom Sir Mark Rowley wanted to cede the policing of "their" streets, which was something that the IRA used to demand. The very gates of Downing Street have been graced with a vigil for people who were still alive, and even then for only two of the three. Golders Green has been accorded a sort of State Visit by Nigel Farage, whose antisemitism until he was at least 18, and he is far too young to have been a child until he was 21, has been recalled publicly by 34 schoolmates. Rightly but even so, Rowley has never issued any rebuke of Farage or of any other figure on the Right for their talk of two-tier policing.

On and on it goes. A house fire near a synagogue has been reported as if it were another Kristallnacht, with no mention of the house's equal proximity to a mosque, not even on the day that a man had pleaded guilty to setting fire to another mosque in one of 22 attacks on such in 2025. The 3200 attacks on Muslims last year did not lead to the declaration of a national emergency. Nothing did. Now as the Minister responsible, Jess Phillips shows characteristic self-awareness by continuing her annual practice of reading into the record of the House of Commons the names of every woman killed by men in the United Kingdom since the previous International Women's Day. Ask her when the COBRA meeting was going to be. Of acts of anti-Christian violence, "In England and Wales alone, 702 incidents were recorded between April 2023 and March 2024, representing a 15 per cent increase compared to the previous year," and the trend continues, so when is the COBRA meeting, David Lammy, former member of the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England? If the perpetrators were overwhelmingly Muslims, then there would already have been one.

In the next few days, we shall either succeed in calling out all of this and a whole lot more, or Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, and the Left, the Greens, the peace movement and the Palestine solidarity movement in general, will have been blamed directly for the Golders Green attacks and, again, for a whole lot more. That would directly threaten our own physical safety while dragging our country even further into the wars with Iran and others. Those wars would be funded by cuts to the means of life at home, with both the cuts and the wars enforced by the destruction of even such civil liberties as we had managed to retain through the sustained period of assault that stretched back at least to the Premiership of the BBC's venerable sage, John Major.