David Stewart

A short commercial, entitled “Just Pray” and made by the Church of England, is now banned by a leading movie theatre chain on the grounds that the script it uses, the words of the Lord’s Prayer, might be “offensive” to people of other faiths or of no faith.

The cheery rosy-faced London “bobby” was nowhere to be seen. In his place were pairs of flak-jacketed and heavily-armed Metropolitan Police and there were rumors that the SAS, Britain’s elite special forces, were on the streets too.

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Jeremy Corbyn is now the leader of a party of which a substantial section profoundly disagree with him.

The critical moment has now come when practically everyone in Britain and across Europe has finally realized the enormity of the tragedy happening across our continent.

What we are seeing is a humanitarian disaster on a much larger scale than previously thought.

The biggest talking point thus far is the remarkable popularity of Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran of the party’s left.