In the early hours of Tuesday morning, fame engulfed the gates of a former synagogue in east London. This is the latest in a string of antisemitic incidents in the UK under investigation by counter-terrorism forces. For many British Jews, this was another attack in a rapidly growing list of attacks against them in the country. The list is growing at an alarming pace. In March, four ambulances belonging to a Jewish voluntary agency were set on fire outside a synagogue in Gol

This article argues that the long-standing political term ‘useful idiot’ needs updating to ‘useful infidel’ to reflect cultural changes in the UK and the Western world. Traditionally, it has been used polemically to describe people, mainly in liberal, progressive democracies, who are unwitting pawns manipulated by totalitarians, tyrants, or other oppressive ideologies with values foreign to their own. Through their support, they give moral legitimacy to ideological systems wh