Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

A year on from the appalling antisemitic terror attack at Heaton Park Synagogue, my thoughts are with the families of Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby. And all those impacted by the attack, including the wider Jewish community.

He should of course face the full force of the law.