“You don’t get to throw away our liberties without proper scrutiny.” Jamie Michael is a decorated former Royal Marine who served his country. After the Southport murders last year, he posted a video on Facebook calling for people to protests against high levels of immigration. A Labour Party staffer reported him to the police. He was immediately arrested and jailed for 20 days on remand for allegedly stirring up racial hatred. Facing a possible seven-year sentence, he was unanimously acquitted. The jury took just 17 minutes to find him not guilty. Cases like Jamie’s — where people are arrested for exercising free speech and expressing legitimate views — will be directly affected by David Lammy’s decision. Trial by one’s peers is a cornerstone of our justice system, guaranteed since Magna Carta. Scrapping jury trials is an assault on our liberties.

A passageway next to a Christmas market in the German city of Augsburg Workers now have to lift heavy metal bollards with a trolley every time a tram or a car needs to pass, part of unprecedented security measures introduced after last year's brutal car-ramming attacks.

Carl Benjamin: Labour has been a disaster for Britain and our girls Carl Benjamin joins Steven Edginton for a blistering conversation on immigration, crime and Britain’s political realignment. They examine Labour’s crisis, the collapse of public trust and the rising anger across the country. From migrant crime to the end of the old parties, Carl offers his most uncompromising analysis yet. He discusses the Labour cabinet from Keir Starmer to Rachel Reeves.

This year, to prevent attacks such as the ones in Berlin and Magdeburg, the German city of Bremen spends an extra 3 million (!) euros on their Christmas market security. If you don’t put a border around your country, you have to put a border around every market and house.

‘The most chaotic Budget in history!’ . @PatrickChristys slams Rachel Reeves’ over today’s Budget, adding ‘we are now a welfare state, with a country attached.’

Even the announcement of the budget turns into a fiasco for this government… It is an important event in parliament, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer stands up to deliver the budget. Trust Labour to much up even this simple task…

Rupert Lowe MP A difficult topic to post on, but important regardless. A number of women have contacted me to explain how during a non-emergency procedure/scan on a sensitive part of the body, they have felt incredibly uncomfortable with the choice of staff member. This has been a man, quite often a foreign man who cannot speak proper English, and is evidently not familiar with how care on such areas of the body is handled delicately. Particularly in maternity wards, where mothers can be in such a vulnerable state and feel unable to effectively challenge it. One woman spoke to me today, saying how she so uncomfortable but unable to speak out as the man was in the room - he did not speak English and made the woman feel terrible. Her words... "I left and cried in my car. I felt absolutely embarrassed and violated." I do not believe that women should be put in this position. There need to be clear safeguarding procedures, and methods so that the women can privately object to a male staff member carrying out a procedure on such an area - particularly one who cannot speak English. It must be obvious and entirely non-judgemental. This has been raised me with on a number of occasions, and these women feel unable to talk about these concerns because they are scared of being called a racist or whatever else. I certainly haven't seen another politician discussing it. This is a debate we need to have. I will raise it in Parliament, and push so that women can have a clear and private veto when it comes to NHS staff for such a private scan/procedure.