Gerard Howlin: Across Europe, there is a real chill setting in in Jewish communities

Rereading George Orwell’s 1945 essay Antisemitism in Britain is chilling, in the context of this week’s article in The Times by the orthodox chief rabbi of Britain and Northern Ireland Ephraim Mirvis. Comparing it with the British Labour Party’s new policy, launched today, on race and faith is black comedy.

Children under Labour will be educated about the legacy of colonialism while anti-Semitism, the oldest, most primal exploitation, is being spread from the same source.