Simon Fish

Terms accepted. What’s the saying? Two birds? One stone?

How am I just now learning the woke term “non-practicing white”? It’s fantastic.

UK terror threat level currently defined as "severe", meaning an attack is highly likely as MI5 chief Sir Ken McCallum warns Britain must 'build defences' against radical Islamic threats. Meanwhile our government is alienating Israel one of our best intelligence sources.

MI5 issues a stark warning that the UK faces a serious threat from radical Islam. It's reassuring to know our police force is on top of it.

.@andyburnham Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz died defending their synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. That deserves to be remembered properly, and nothing that follows should be read as taking away from that. But you cannot write this message and also be the Prime Minister who chose the week of the October 7 anniversary to declare Israel's occupation "unlawful" and accuse its settlers of "ethnic cleansing," language your own Foreign Secretary used publicly. You cannot pledge £310 million to protect British Jews from a rising climate of hostility while your government supplies the rhetoric that climate feeds on. The Community Security Trust recorded a 21 per cent rise in antisemitic incidents this year. That did not happen in a vacuum removed from what senior members of your government say about Israel and how they say it. Phil Rosenberg himself, the man whose honey sits in your kitchen, warned publicly that focusing narrowly on Israeli government actions "fuels a climate of hatred not only towards Israel but towards British Jews." He said this the same week your Foreign Secretary announced the sanctions. You cannot quote his generosity in one paragraph and ignore his warning in the next. Security funding is necessary and welcome. It is not sufficient, and it is not a substitute for asking whether your own government's language is making that funding more necessary than it needs to be. A new year message that omits that question isn't a commitment. It's a way of avoiding one. "Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz died defending their synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar."

The Foreign Secretary has attracted praise this week from Hamas and Iran for his policy on Israel. The same genocidal Islamists who attacked the Twin Towers approve of Ed Miliband. The Palestinians who rejoiced in the mass murder of Americans are now Labour’s preferred “underdogs”.

Figures released by the City of London Corporation this week showed overall foreign direct investment (FDI) in Britain slumped by £14bn last year to £54bn, a drop of 21pc. Well done Labour 👏