Those prone to attributing Britain’s rising Jew-hatred to Middle East violence involving Israel should think again, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. The latest trigger for – always-lurking – anti-Semitism, O’Neill shows, comes from the vile alliance between Islamism and progressivism, particularly the DEI ideology that has pervaded the UK’s institutions and, increasingly, penetrated regular bourgeois society.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
