On Yom Kippur, two worshippers were killed and four seriously injured in Manchester when a vehicle and knife assault targeted a synagogue. The attacker, a Syrian man named Jihad al-Shamie, was quickly neutralised by police – but the underlying causes of this attack reveal a deeper, entirely predictable pattern of Islamist violence and government inaction. Josh Ferme examines how demographic tensions, imported extremism, and policy failures combined to make this tragedy almost inevitable.

Boris Johnson promised a post-Brexit Britain renewed and strong – but his premiership left the country weaker, more divided, and overrun by what commentators now call the “Boriswave”. Connor Tomlinson traces how Johnson’s policies on immigration, governance, and multiculturalism created a legacy of demographic and economic strain, one that continues to shape Britain today. The myth of the Churchillian Boris has crumbled; what remains is a cautionary tale of ambition unchecked.