Jenny Smith

It’s devastating that Girlguiding has announced plans to exclude existing trans girl guides from September. The Supreme Court ruling is being weaponised to bully previously inclusive organisations into abandoning members of their own community. The government must ensure that the statutory guidance enables organisations to be inclusive and protects them from expensive anti-trans lawfare.

The Jewish people are without question the most integrated minority in the UK and British culture, with immense contributions to the country. Even saying “integrated” does not feel right, as many have ancestry going back decades and have married into families across all walks of British life. Many Jews, or those of Jewish ancestry, see themselves as English, Scottish, Welsh, or simply British above all else. Most of the time, you would have no idea you are in the presence of a Jewish person unless they tell you, or, of course, unless they are openly Orthodox. The point I'm making here is that to hear that Jewish people do not see a future for themselves in the UK should feel deeply disturbing and unnerving. A people who, as I said, are often simply recognised as, say, English, no longer see a future here because, for the most part, a barbaric and backward ideology is trying to drive them out. Well, no, not just drive them out but kill them.. The quote “first they come for the Saturday people and then for the Sunday people” could not ring truer than it does today.