Fiyaz Mughal in the Telegraph Over half a decade of working with the Home Office on countering extremism, I saw it for myself, time and time again: a civil service culture that instinctively resists scrutiny of anything involving religion or ethnicity. The moment you even suggest that the ethnicity or faith of perpetrators might be one factor among many…

When a fellow panellist on Question Time mentioned the grooming gangs back in May, Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell responded with “oh, we want to blow that little trumpet now do we” and “let’s get that dog whistle out shall we”. This is a crime that thrives on misinformation, on fears of “racism” and…

Full text: They believe we’re asking Israel to leave the West Bank; places like Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, or Jenin so we can live freely in our own country beside them. To them, it sounds fair, peaceful, and reasonable. But here’s the truth they don’t understand: When most Palestinians talk about “occupation,” they’re not talking…

A visit yesterday to this strange out-of-the-way location just next to the mainline coming out of St Pancras station. In the 1860s a young Thomas Hardy, then working for a London architect, was in charge of clearing the old graveyard in readiness for the new railway lines. Also – see below – Sir John Soane’s…

Fraser Nelson went to Blackpool, and found an appalling tale of child sexual abuse amid the poverty – abuse committed by white men acting alone. He concludes that the inquiry into the the grooming gangs therefor needs to be widened: If there is to be an inquiry, it absolutely needs to be wide-ranging — because…

From Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx: The Supreme Court of Minnesota has ruled that trans-identified male powerlifter Joel “Jaycee” Cooper experienced “sex discrimination” when USA Powerlifting barred him from competing in the women’s category. In a precedent-setting decision handed down on Wednesday, Chief Justice Natalie Hudson argued that USA Powerlifting’s policy prohibiting males who claim a transgender status…

For more on cousin marriages, see here, For the shameful NHS pandering, see here.

And, in Austria: A 12-year-old Jewish boy was brutally attacked by two classmates in Vienna, with antisemitic threats reportedly shouted during the assault. The incident occurred on Tuesday, and the boy sustained injuries requiring hospitalization. His family alleges the school ignored prior harassment, leading them to file a police complaint. The family claims this attack…

Someone tell Lucy Williamson.