When the Batley teacher is out of hiding, I may change my mind about multiculturalism

Our ruling elites continue to display gutlessness in the face of religious bullying

Paul Embery is one of the most interesting, insightful and original voices to have emerged in British journalism for some time — Douglas Murray

Sometimes an image can speak a thousand words. I remember being profoundly moved upon seeing a photograph (one that went on to win the Pulitzer prize) taken in 1993 in famine-blighted Sudan. It featured a young child crouching, starving and naked, on the dry ground while, a few yards away, a vulture looked on, sensing some easy pickings.

I still think about that photo today. Prose is not required to give force to images of this kind. They tell their own story.

Tragically, the photographer in that case, haunted by the pain and suffering he had witnessed, went on to take his own life.

Similarly, I felt a deep fury when viewing an image of the scene inside a mosque in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 2023.