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As was widely expected in political and legal circles, the UK government lost its Brexit case in the Supreme Court today when the justices ruled by eight to three that ministers could not trigger Britain’s exit from the EU without Parliamentary legislation. The government says it will accordingly bring a short bill before the House of Commons later this week. It is to be hoped that neither MPs nor the House of Lords will now try to impede the stated will of the people for Brexit, as expressed in last…

The Policy Exchange think-tank recently published a report on attitudes among British Muslims called Unsettled Belonging. Among its many interesting observations, one in particular leapt out at me. No, it wasn’t that 43% of British Muslims support the introduction of some forms of sharia law in Britain. Nor that, despite this aspiration, more than half wanted to “fully integrate” with British society. Nor that 7 per cent believed the Jews were responsible for 9/11, more than the 4 per cent who pinned it on al Qaeda (described by the authors…

In British Prime Minister Theresa May’s otherwise very welcome and supportive remarks about Israel and the Jews that she made at the Conservative Friends of Israel lunch in London earlier this week, one paragraph struck a jarring false note. She said: “I made sure we kept extremism – including the sort that peddles antisemitic vitriol – out of our country… That is why I said no to so-called comedians like Dieudonne coming to Britain. It’s why I stopped Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Pastor Terry Jones coming too – since…