The whole world is talking about jihadi brides returning. Well, my whole world is. That’s me, Mel, The Times, the News, Question Time and Lila. And on the radio too. Not radio two, but The radio, TOO. In fact on LBC. The phone-ins have been talking about pretty much nothing else since Shamima was ‘found’ by the Times journalist in the camp in Syria. And now even Corbyn’s piped up and says she must ‘come home’. But as we all know, he loves a terrorist and can never have too many around him.

Much as I’m appalled by her appalling views on various atrocities and the fact that she shows no remorse… well, a little bit after they withdrew her citizenship, so even that must be questioned, she pretty much must come back to Britain. Sajid Javid’s actions the other day can be seen by some (well, by me) as being a slightly politicised way of having a ‘Churchill moment’, of elevating himself in the public’s eyes from creepy little diversity-quota-filler to Man of Action! Like Maggie Thatcher became over the Falklands. But she was much more a man that Sajid could ever be.

The lawyers will wrangle, Shamima’s parents (or, I’m guessing by the amazingly honest, clever and superb letter they submitted yesterday; their legal team) will fight and essentially she is British and no-one else will take her. Obviously she must face the consequences of her actions, but back she’ll come. With her tail under her hijab.

A young woman on LBC, an educated ‘British Muslim’, all nice vowels and tolerance and anti-jihadi liberalism, was stating her case for Shamima’s return. And, with the presenter playing devil’s advocate and pushing a little in the interests of ‘good radio when you’ve been discussing the same thing day and night for 10 days solid’, she suddenly spurted out “WELL PEOPLE WENT TO FIGHT FOR ISRAEL IN THEIR WARS AND THEY WERE LET BACK IN!!!’

And it was the assumed equivalence that shocked me. Yup, shocked me. Along with the ease and casualness with which it was thrown out there. And the fact that this woman, seemingly so intelligent and educated, could run a parallel between people going to fight a cause that, in her eyes and many others, was unworthy or in many ways ‘wrong’, with fighting for a cause that threatens OUR very way of life. A war about the Middle East in the Middle East as opposed to a death-cult culture which is sworn to the destruction of our ways, our nation, our very existence. One is at worst ‘morally questionable’, the other a direct threat to Britain.

Worrying. Very worrying

Happy Friday

A xxxx