If there has been a more shameful day in recent British history, I’m struggling to recall it tonight.
As unrest flared around the Aston Villa stadium, with pro-Israel protesters herded into a caged basketball court by police for their own safety, we witnessed nothing less than the forces of Islamism exerting a stranglehold on our police, our government and our country.
How must Sir Keir Starmer have felt after vowing to do all he could to reverse the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, only to have been humiliated at the hands of the mob? Last month, the Prime Minister declared that the chant “from the river to the sea” was unequivocally antisemitic. What would he say about “death, death to the IDF” as it rang off the pavements of Birmingham?
Behold the future …
On the one hand I’m ecstatic that everything we were straining to say through memes and booby-trapped interviews with deceitful journalists is now being voiced openly, plainly, and without hysteria.
On the other, I mourn the wasted years, the cartoon brawls between right-wing… https://t.co/ymbZNSMWbt
— Lucy Brown (@lucymarionbrown) November 7, 2025
