Some autumn colour in Kew Gardens today:

The Met have banned a UKIP march through Whitechapel. The call for ‘mass deportations’ had caused “significant community concerns”. Well yes. On the other hand: Full text: They have dressed as terrorists and chanted ancient battle cries warning Jews: “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews! The army of Mohammed is returning”. For two years, @MetPoliceUK Commissioner Sir…

An unreported scandal, from Julie Bindel at UnHerd: By now, everyone is familiar with the grooming gang scandal. But few people realise how serious the problem is in London — and those who do are very reluctant to call it out. As we are only now discovering, the capital’s politicians, police and social workers are…

Reinforcing a point made yesterday, Jo Bartosch at UnHerd – Scrapping NCHIs is not the end of the thought police: Britain’s unrepentant thought-criminals have cheered following the news that the Metropolitan Police has promised to stop probing non-crime hate incidents. The irony, of course, is that the police never investigated NCHIs in the first place: the entire…

It’s not just here in the UK. In Holland too: Translation: At #Erasmus University, a new Dreyfus affair is looming. The target is Prof. #ElenaKantorowicz-Reznichenko. A demonstration against her is taking place on 10/28. In the announcement, she is referred to as “ZIO PROFESSOR.” Her “crime”: she studied in Haifa and worked at the Public…

A couple of reports from Palestine Media Watch. Yesterday: Hamas is again hiding its terror activities in schools and hospitals, as it did before and throughout the Gaza war. It has also redeployed its security forces across most of the regions of the Gaza Strip that are not under Israeli control, the Palestinian Authority official…

The grooming gangs enquiry is heading for a whitewash: Two survivors of child sexual abuse have quit the national inquiry into grooming gangs, citing a “toxic, fearful environment” and a “high risk of people feeling silenced all over again”. In a resignation letter on Monday, Fiona Goddard said the process so far had involved “secretive…

From the Times, on the Met dropping charges against Graham Linehan: The force said: “We understand the concern around this case. The commissioner has been clear he doesn’t believe officers should be policing toxic culture war debates, with current laws and rules on inciting violence online leaving them in an impossible position. “As a result,…