Tag: echoes

Anti-Semitic London’s echoes of 1930s Berlin

ROBIN Simcox, the Home Office’s independent adviser on extremism, has warned that London is becoming a no-go area for Jews and has urged Ministers to be bolder when tackling radicalisation.  His intervention follows the unprecedented levels of pro-Palestinian activism seen in London since Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Southern Israel, in which 1,139 people were killed and 240 taken […]

Hate-crime Britain and its echoes of Stalin

WITH the growing possibility of people in Britain being imprisoned for their political, moral or religious beliefs – ‘hate crimes’ perceived to be ‘motivated by hostility based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity’ are already offences carrying jail sentences – reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1968 novel The First Circle over Christmas proved a disturbing experience. Some reflections on it seem timely. Set […]