Let’s see peace

PRO-Palestine marchers say they just want peace for Gaza. Today let them prove it.

First, let us say that their protest should not be going ahead on Armistice Day. Not after the shameful scenes previously.

Organisers should have honoured Remembrance weekend and postponed.

They refused. In Britain they are free to do so. But freedom to protest does not mean you always should.

Since they are, let us see them behave respectfully, as Rishi Sunak rightly demands.

Let us see too their ­genuine calls for peace in Palestine.

Not for “intifada” or violent jihad.

No chants for the genocide of Jews, including the Hamas “river to the sea” mantra now illegal in Germany.

No glorification of October 7.

No tolerance of Islamists preaching terror.

Instead let us see them clamour for the two fastest routes to peace:

The release of all kidnapped Israelis, including 38 kids.

And the surrender of Hamas, Gaza’s real oppressors — the blood-soaked monsters hiding behind their citizens, lurking in tunnels, stockpiling arms under hospitals.

And let the Met Police, and its 2,000 cops on duty, prove the Home Secretary wrong: Let’s see zero tolerance for any of the transgressions we have described — with offenders nicked on the spot.

Let no protester get even within shouting distance of the Cenotaph.

Let every mourner, veteran and poppy seller pay their respects in total safety.

To any far-right thugs who consider today a golden opportunity for a ruck, we say this: Back off.

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Violence will solve nothing, prove no one’s patriotism nor honour the precious memory of our war dead.

Press under fire

SOME news stories are so overwhelmingly in the public interest it trumps that they are based on illicit leaks, or information allegedly stolen by whistleblowers.

Like the MPs’ expenses scandal.

Or The Sun’s Matt Hancock exposé.

The Met Police bid to criminalise them via the Official Secrets Act, including a dawn raid on a journalist, is scandalous.

The High Court, laudably, has overruled it.

Without that, the establishment would have had a licence to cover up negligence, failure or criminality.

Did ministers sign off that raid? If so, what were they thinking?

Frocky horror

THE Sun will always defend the right of LGBTQ+ Serbians to hold drag festivals.

If “Dragoslavia” made a few folk happy in Belgrade, great.

What enrages us is that UK taxpayers paid the £10,700 bill.

It had no British involvement.

It was a woke whim of the British Council, part-funded by our taxes.

How did it promote Britain?

When will the Foreign Office cut off this quango, if this is how it blows our money?