Harm Office
THE extraordinary memo leaked from the Home Office exposes a broken department infested by left-wing radicals masquerading as impartial analysts.
Who else, supposedly focused on extremism, wants police to waste more time probing “non-crime hate incidents”, or even a new offence of “harmful communications” on social media?
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Both are an open invitation for vexatious complaints from the perpetually offended, always on the Left, and infinitely more likely to crush free speech than catch anyone genuinely dangerous.
Only the Left, too, would apparently imagine some equivalence between Islamist extremists responsible for 94 per cent of UK deaths by terrorism since 1999 and yobs frothing online.
Only the Left dismiss firm evidence of two-tier policing as a “far-right extremist narrative” — and see 15 years of grooming-gang convictions of mostly Pakistani-origin men as an “alleged” scandal “exploited” by the right.
The Home Secretary’s error in trusting activists to devise her extremism strategy is that they have their own skewed bias about what extremism is.
Belief will then trump evidence — with greater risk to the public.
Defend this
REFUSING to find the money to defend the nation is not the inevitable consequence of hard times. It is a political choice.
As it is a choice to spend £14billion on foreign aid instead, or hand Ed Miliband billions for Net Zero follies, or give militant unions inflation-busting rises.
Or pay Chinese ally Mauritius to take our strategically vital Chagos Islands.
It is a choice to prioritise ideological fixations while delaying spending even 2.5 per cent of our GDP defending Britain . . . let alone the three per cent minimum we really need or the five per cent the US wants from all Nato members.
Despite a world seemingly on the brink of war, and repeated warnings of how ill-prepared we are, the Government looks unwilling to hit even 2.5 per cent until at least 2032.
It is said that’s to prevent Labour copping flak for cutting other services right before the 2029 election.
Wasn’t it supposed to be “country first, party second”?
Never forget
SIX million Jews were slaughtered in the Holocaust, history’s most heinous evil.
It is shocking that it is increasingly denied or downplayed by bigots making political points about Israel.
But it was moving indeed to see our King at Auschwitz — and Kate with William at the London event marking 80 years since the death camp’s liberation.
Anti-Semitism has exploded again since Hamas triggered war in Gaza.
But we must never forget the Holocaust — the reason the State of Israel exists.
