Lorin Bell-Cross

Never let anyone tell you that journalism doesn't generate change. In November I revealed that Dutch Police reports undermined West Midlands Police's justification for banning fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv from Birmingham. I also spoke to the Mayor of Amsterdam who disputed their account of events in her city involving Maccabi fans. Further scrutiny exposed more inaccuracies. - Their 'intelligence' report cited a football match that never happened. - They were forced to apologise for wrongly telling MPs that this wasn't the result of a "hallucination" by artificial intelligence. - They also retracted claims that the Jewish community backed their decision to ban Maccabi fans. Today, after scrutiny by journalists like myself and @Gabriel_Pogrund and the tenacity of parliamentarians like @NJ_Timothy and @LordIanAustin , some accountability has finally been taken and the chief constable has decided to leave his position early.

Bottle this feeling 🍾

Not sure this is the most helpful comparison for Burnham…

Wow. There are some very sore losers around. Get over it!

Recommended reading … in the Arkham Asylum

Everyone in the region trying to kill each other. Meanwhile deaf Israelis and Palestinians:

BREAKING @GBNEWS: Seven men, who are all Afghan nationals and refugees, have been charged with 40 offences after an investigation into an alleged grooming gang in Norwich. Five of the men arrived illegally in Britain by small boat; two by lorry. All of the men have been in the country for several years. One arrived illegally as early as 2020. The charges relate to two victims, who were in their early-to-mid teens at the time of the alleged offences.

literally how can it get bleaker than this

Enid Blyton take on a controversial subject here

Not only do the Green Party now run @haringeycouncil, Haringey Labour have elected Cllr Ibrahim Ali to be their leader. Yes, the same Cllr Ali who formerly worked for Islamist group CAGE. Good luck Haringey residents. The crackpots are now in charge.

This is the level of brain-dead racism we’re faced with

Quite an extraordinary story from Lewisham!

‘Zionism is pure evil’ Green now responsible for ‘communities and inclusion’ in London council thejc.com/news/politics/…

No amount of prostrating oneself to the lefty omnicause is good enough, part 3,784

Israel's opposition leader says it was the PR equivalent of a terrorist attack on the state of Israel and blames Netanyahu for inviting "a convicted criminal" to be a coalition partner. x.com/yairlapid/stat…

Hugely significant intervention from Britain's chief rabbi on Itamar Ben-Gvir's "shameful" flotilla video. "Chilul Hashem" means desecrating God's name.

Politics, journalism, faith... throw it all out the window when the Gunners are playing. 😅 Love this from @lorintbc on the beautiful, chaotic, unifying madness that is @Arsenal. Victoria Concordia Crescit! ❤️ #arsenal @JewishChron thejc.com/opinion/what-e…

There should be show trials for this farce

Got to write about Arsenal winning the league, my childhood joy at seeing THAT Tony Adams goal in 1998 and definitely being waved at by @IanWright0 on the parade. Contains a shoutout to the former @BoardofDeputies official who wrote in a NLD matchday programme "I can say with some confidence that Arsenal has always attracted a larger percentage of Jewish supporters than any other London club".

Here's my @JewishChron column on how it feels as a @SpursOfficial fan to see @Arsenal win the league, 'Trials and tribulations of a Spurs fan in this nightmare season' #COYS thejc.com/opinion/trials… At 23.49 last night, my sister sent me a picture of my nephew – an Arsenal season ticket holder – and his wife at the Emirates, celebrating the Gooners’ title win. What was I supposed to do? Smile? Say congratulations? Delete it? I’m a Spurs fan – also a season ticket holder – and let me put it this way: I wish only good things to the Solomons family – to my nephews (both of them have a season ticket), to my brother in law (also a season ticket holder) and to my sister (no season ticket but a Gooner). Good things in life, in health, in love, in work, financially. In every imaginable way except, obviously, football, in which I wish them nothing but disappointment. So last night was not one of my better nights. Not least because of the parallel story that has run alongside the Gooners’ ascent towards the title: Spurs’ descent towards the Championship. I’m not one to make predictions but you didn’t have to be Nostradamus to conclude that our chances of getting a draw (and thus the point that would have secured our Premier League status) at Stamford Bridge, where Chelsea have lost just once to us in the past 41 matches, was about as likely as me being selected to play in next month’s World Cup for Iran. To be honest, I blame my sister for all of this. A couple of weeks ago we agreed a deal: I’d let Arsenal win at West Ham if she’d let Spurs win at home to Leeds. I delivered on my part of the bargain. She did not – we drew 1-1. Once bitten, twice shy. I agreed to let the Gooners beat Burnley on Monday if she would let us get a point at Stamford Bridge. Again, I kept my side of the deal, she didn’t. Trust has to be earned. After 60 years, I thought I could trust you, Jo, but I won’t be making that mistake again. I don’t hate Arsenal. My father taught me that we don’t hate our closest rival. Hate is the wrong word (that’s reserved for Chelsea). We loathe their smugness. We despise how they cheated their way into the league all those years ago when they upped sticks from Woolwich and have pretended ever since that they have any business being in north London (and as for that dirge of a fake anthem, North London Forever…). And we wish them eternal misery. But there is, alongside that, a grudging form of respect. The kind of respect you have for your most worthy adversary. And while we might keep on about the awful brand of non-football the wretched Gooners now play, and say how we can’t imagine anything worse than winning the league with such dross, we all know that’s drivel. Because it would be delusional for any Spurs fan to lay claim to any of the footballing style that we like to think our club is associated with, after a season (more than one, if we are being honest) where our performances have shamed everything Tottenham Hotspur stands for. And so miserable as I now am – that the Gooners will take their smugness to a new, epic level, and that we have to endure the hell of this Sunday’s relegation dogfight with West Ham (COME ON LEEDS!) – I also have to give credit to… Oh hold on. I was trying to come over all generous-spirited there, but I just can’t do it. Not going to happen. All I can actually do is turn to Saturday week’s Champions League final. And say I hope that the Gooners’ defeat isn’t just embarrassing but, yes, epic.

אומר זאת שוב: בן גביר אינו הסיפור. אלא ראש הממשלה שמינה איש כזה לתפקיד השר לביטחון לאומי והפקיר את הביטחון הלאומי לידיי עבריין מורשע.