Robert Corbishley

Five years ago today, a teacher from Batley Grammar showed a class a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed. Within days, a hundred Islamists were protesting outside the school gates. Outrageously, the teacher was suspended. The headteacher, Gary Kibble, apologised ‘unequivocally’. It was an astonishing act of appeasement and cowardice. The teacher was then subjected to a campaign of abuse and intimidation, including incitement to violence against him and his family. His kids had to miss school for months. They slept on mattresses in temporary accommodation. An independent probe later cleared him of any wrongdoing whatsoever. Another report likewise found that the school, council and police all ‘totally and utterly failed’ him. Too late - his life was changed forever. Have lessons been learnt from this shameful episode? I fear exactly the same thing would happen today. In fact ‘advice’ has recently been reissued by Labour councils including the one covering Batley, that children’s drawings in art lessons may be seen as ‘idolatrous’ under sharia law. Teachers are even warned that dance lessons could cause parental concerns over ‘physical contact between males and females’. Extremism is being mainstreamed. A climate of threatening and intimidatory harassment is poisoning our institutions. It's antithetical to our democratic way of life. Most of our governing class are simply too spineless to take on Islamists. Look at when I highlighted the chronic failure of integration in parts of Birmingham. I was denounced. And then proven right by West Midlands Police’s admission that violent Islamists living couldn’t be prevented from attacking Jewish football fans. The Police lied and blamed the visiting supporters in an effort to pretend they still had authority in the city. And now look at the reaction of the Prime Minister and much of the media to criticisms of a segregated Iftar in Trafalgar Square. They branded critics racist too. This was despite the Prime Minister himself pulling out of an Iftar in 2021 organised by the very same man, Omar Salha, who arranged this one, apparently because of his Islamist links. We’ve been led by weak hypocrites, who cover up, rather than confront what’s happening. The country is sliding down a dark path as a result. But innocent men and women like the Batley teacher are the greatest victims of extremism, and too many seem intent to forget them. We must defend them and stand up for all those who speak out.

@tomhfh But the country is

I have a feeling Number 10 isn't loving this.

@GBNEWS @ga_richardson Or, placing our sub directly in range of Iranian missiles.

Royal Navy nuclear submarine 'arrives in Arabian Sea - placing Iran directly in range of British missiles' gbnews.com/news/royal-nav…

@afneil Downing St statements.

With what?

Keir Starmer told the House of Commons on 10 September "full due process was followed during this [the Mandelson] appointment". If the communication between McSweeney and Mandelson has not been officially recorded centrally then that is a direct abuse of due process.

@SkyNews Labour’s about to crash the economy.

Starmer to chair COBRA meeting over Iran war's impact on the economy, Sky News understands trib.al/818jYgI

Keir Starmer's Love Actually Moment latest...

@DPJHodges Didn't something similar happen to Boris Johnson?

Like I said. They genuinely think we’re all morons.

ANDREW NEIL: There's a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller mol.im/a/15665931 via @DailyMail

Is there anything else of ours the Iranians are chucking missiles at that our government hasn't bothered to tell us about?

@DPJHodges HE IS CRAP. Something's gotta give. We can't go on like this.

As I warned, Keir Starmer is too weak, too indecisive and too temperamentally wedded to inaction to have a Love Actually Moment over Iran > Mail Plus > dailymail.co.uk/columnists/art…

@DPJHodges Gosh, you mean Starmer wasn't telling us the truth?

Well she's right isn't she. It's not in dispute. The attack happened several days ago and the Government failed to inform anyone. At the same time Keir Starmer was claiming he would keep Britain out of a "wider war".

@piersmorgan Gosh, I wonder of our allies might be able to help us but, given our terrible treatment of them, may be reluctant to help us.

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

Worse than Chamberlain; also, terrifying.

This is an incredible statement from a British Foreign Secretary. Literally acknowledges our interests, allies, global partners, global shipping and the wider Middle East are under direct attack from a hostile state. Then emphasises we will not take offensive action to deter it.

Can anyone explain why Iranians are trying to get into Britain’s most sensitive nuclear installation? And whether there comes a time when we realise allowing thousands of young men from Iran into Britain on small boats might be a threat to our security? thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

@LiamHalligan We HAVE TO CUT SPENDING

So the UK's 10-year gilt yield - the cost of government borrowing - is now up at 2008 levels. An 18-year high The difference is that, back then, UK national debt was 48pc of GDP, and now it's the best part of 100pc. So the debt service costs are much MUCH heavier. Of the £14.3bn the UK government borrowed in February alone, no less than £13bn of that was spent on interest on existing debts - a situation which is not only unsustainable, but very close to provoking a disastrous financial collapse. Yet still, our national discourse is all about more spending, more borrowing, more "state intervention". When is the Labour party – and much of the listless, unthinking rump of the UK's political and media class – going to start acknowledging reality? WHEN ....?

This is not good news given what will now happen to UK finances as a result of the war on Iran. And perhaps we can have some silence from all those who piled to exaggerate the significance of January’s freak figures. The UK borrowed a higher than expected £14.3bn in February. The shortfall between government spending and income was £2.2bn higher than in the same month a year ago and far above the £8.5bn forecast by economists polled by Reuters. At a time of peril for nation’s finances it is frightening to have R Reeves as Chancellor.

@rirkby @RossKempsell Pah! It’s liberal left!

@robcorb @RossKempsell It’s not the Daily Stormer but its editorial line is measurably and objectively right of centre by some margin.

No I won’t, sorry

@JohnHealey_MP No it is not. Stop lying.

The safety of British people is my top priority. An update on what we’re doing to protect our citizens, support our Armed Forces and defend our interests in the Middle East 👇