“Islamophobia”

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has met intelligence services to assess the terrorist threat to the country, after the Moscow concert hall attack claimed by Islamic State raised fresh security fears over the Paris Olympics.

One of the biggest security challenges facing the organisers of the Games in the French capital is to protect the opening ceremony on 26 July. It is planned to be an unprecedented, open-air extravaganza, which for the first time in Olympic history will not take place within the confines of a stadium, but instead involve a flotilla of 94 boats carrying thousands of waving athletes down a 6km (3.7-mile) stretch of the Seine, followed by a further 80 boats carrying media and security, while an estimated 222,000 people gather along the river’s edge and 200,000 more watch from buildings.

France’s prime minister says a teenage girl will be sued by the state for falsely accusing her headteacher of striking her in a heated exchange over her wearing an Islamic head-covering.

The headteacher insisted that the pupil remove her head-covering inside the school, in accordance with French law.

He resigned after death threats circulated on social media.

Convict then deport.

Austria, France, and Italy have all issued warnings of potential terrorist threats to Europe by the Islamic State (IS) following the group’s Moscow concert hall attack that killed 139 people.

The French government increased the country’s security alert to its highest level, which means more soldiers will be put on standby and ready to patrol sensitive sites, including schools. According to Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, France has thwarted two attack attempts by IS since the start of the year, including a foiled attack on the city of Strasbourg.

Abdul Ezedi’s conversion accepted as genuine by judge even though he could not answer basic questions

The Clapham chemical attacker was granted asylum despite the Home Office warning that he had failed a Christianity test and was “using religion for his own ends”.

Newly released documents show an immigration judge accepted Abdul Ezedi’s conversion as genuine even though he could not answer basic Home Office questions about Christianity and was found to have repeatedly lied about his background.

One of the many things the pandemic taught us was this: teaching is hard. It’s hard to explain a grammatical rule or mathematical theorem to a child in clear terms; it’s impossibly hard to remain patient when that child does not understand, and you’re forced to explain it a second, third and fourth time.

Now imagine trying to do that with 30 of them. Imagine the long hours of marking at the end of the day, the fractious parents and the low pay.