We need to talk about Afghan sex offenders
For many years, it has been tantamount to racism to draw any connection between foreign nationals and criminal offending in the UK. But case after case shows that there is…
For many years, it has been tantamount to racism to draw any connection between foreign nationals and criminal offending in the UK. But case after case shows that there is…
The prospect of PC Andrew Harper’s killers being released from prison early has provoked real public anger. And with good reason. PC Harper, a Thames Valley policeman, was killed in…
The recent history of policing in England has been one of startling incompetence. The most obvious consequence is an atmosphere of creeping lawlessness and a grim acceptance among the public…
There is one line in the Home Office fact sheet on this year’s figures for Prevent – the UK’s counter-radicalisation referral scheme – that is more informative than the rest…
It is virtually impossible to imagine what Metropolitan Police sergeant Martyn Blake and his loved ones have been through over the past four years. On 5 September 2022, Blake, a…
Every incoming British prime minister in recent years has inherited similar challenges: economic stagnation, high immigration, a struggling NHS and an increasingly volatile international scene. But Andy Burnham will also…
At 9.31 on the morning of Yom Kippur last year, a man named Jihad Al-Shamie drove his Kia Picanto into the security gates of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue…
At around half past 10 on Monday night, 8 June, on a residential street in north Belfast, a man in his thirties allegedly pinned another man to the ground and…
‘Tell me what you accuse the Jews of [and] I’ll tell you what you are guilty of.’ Those words, by the great Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman, have rung in…
It was a frost-bitten day in late January this year. On the Interstate 91 in Vermont, some 15 kilometres from the Canadian border, US border agents pulled over a blue…