Mad Mel takes issue with a Radio 4 programme claiming that the Community Security Trust (whose leading light is Mike Whine) has exaggerated the current level of anti-semitism in Britain: “Anyone who talks to the police will know that the Jewish community in Britain has to be guarded against the very real threat of attack from both Muslims and neo-Nazis.” She is particularly outraged that Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain was among those interviewed on the programme.

Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 10 October 2005