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Islamist’s attack on synagogue. The chairman of a policing scrutiny panel was sacked after she complained that officers were avoiding the “elephant in the room” of Islamist extremism in a meeting about an anti-Semitic terrorist attack. After last October’s attack on a synagogue in Manchester, the woman accused West Yorkshire Police of trying to appease Muslims rather than focusing on the Jewish community. She was told she was being removed as chairman of the Bradford Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel because of her “divisive and inflammatory” comments, which had prompted complaints from Muslim police officers taking part in the meeting. It...

Sir Keir Starmer will encourage Shabana Mahmood to run for election as his deputy within Labour to see off Left-wing candidates, party insiders suggest. The new Home Secretary, who is a devout Muslim, is seen by many Starmer loyalists as the perfect choice to replace Angela Rayner and to get ahead of challenger running on a pro-Palestinian platform. The Prime Minister will almost certainly face a challenge to his authority from the Left of the Labour Party when nominations open for the deputy leadership. Left-wing MPs are expected to rally around a candidate who will urge Sir Keir to get...

Politically Correct Universities 'Are Killing Free Speech' British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, academics argue Javier Espinoza, and Gordon Rayner 18 Dec British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, a group of leading academics warns on Saturday. A whole generation of students is being denied the “intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views” because self-censorship is turning campuses into over-sanitised “safe spaces”, they say. Their intervention comes as an Oxford...