Far-right ‘Defends’ the Cenotaph to the Echo of Home Secretary’s Words

THE OBSERVER: Tension built all week about the Gaza march on Armistice Day. In the end, the far-right sparked violence. Then huge peaceful crowds surged through London

Never has the Cenotaph, in its 103 years of standing sentry on Whitehall, been “defended” on Armistice Day by a Port Vale fan supping a can of Stella Artois.

“I’m here in case the jihadists get past the police, who’ll probably just let them through anyway,” said Ben Neale, 22, from Tunstall, Staffordshire. “If they do come, they’ll soon wish they hadn’t.”

As it transpired, it was some of his fellow football supporters, backed aggressively by elements of the far right, who broke violently through police lines, toppling over metal barricades, throwing missiles and temporarily forcing officers back as they surged towards the Cenotaph on the anniversary of the end of the first world war. » | Mark Townsend | Saturday, November 11, 2023

‘Enormous Mistake’: Douglas Murray’s Warning over Planned Pro-Palestine Protest in London

Nov 3, 2023 | Author Douglas Murray says a pro-Palestine march on Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom would be a “deliberate provocation” of the British people and should not be allowed to go ahead.

Thousands of demonstrators are planning to take to the streets of London on November 11 to call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Mr Murray warned it would be a “great overreach” by Islamists and an “enormous mistake”. “Either doesn't go ahead or it goes ahead and it will have to be countered because I don't think the British public should have to put up with this,” he told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “We should not have to put up with our national monuments being defiled, we should not have to put up with the Cenotaph being defiled.”


Hear! Hear! For many, Islamophobia is a rational fear because it is only Muslims who behead others and put gays to death simply for loving another of the same gender. So, wouldn't you have a fear of people who practise a faith that encourages behaviour redolent of the Stone Age? – © Mark Alexander

Queen Leads Remembrance Day Tributes at the Cenotaph

Watch ceremony at the Cenotaph in London where the Queen led tributes to members of the armed forces who have lost their lives fighting for the nation

Read the Sunday Telegraph article here