Free thinking. Straight talking. Explore more opinion from the nation’s leading comment writers. | | Jamie Michael, a former Royal Marine, has been barred from coaching his daughter’s sports team |  | Robert Mendick Chief Reporter | More than a year on from the Southport murders and the riots that followed, the political fallout continues.
Jamie Michael, 47, a former Royal Marine, has been banned from coaching his daughter’s football team over an anti-immigration video he posted on Facebook two days after the Southport attack.
Michael was charged with inciting racial hatred but he was acquitted by a jury after just 17 minutes.
Less than a fortnight later though, the Football Association of Wales’s safeguarding board deemed Michael a risk and barred him from working with children.
The Free Speech Union (FSU), which is supporting Michael’s case, claims that child protection laws are being used to punish people who, like Michael, espouse Right-wing views.
The FSU has more than a dozen cases on its books of people referred to safeguarding boards for comments and posts made online or in schools or elsewhere.
Michael insists he is not a racist but that he was simply railing against illegal immigration. His words were injudicious, but as a father of two girls, he was clearly steamed up and over-emotional when he made his 12-minute video.
His case is likely to have wider ramifications. The White House is on high alert, alarmed by what it sees as a crackdown on free speech in the UK.
Michael, an ex-professional footballer, wants to coach kids again and throw off the stigma of his ban. His legal action will be keenly watched.
Read the full story here ➤ | | Nigel Farage during his last campaign rally on Clacton Pier |  | Tony Diver Associate Political Editor | Nigel Farage is no stranger to controversy – not least among his own supporters.
The latest explosive allegations against him, exclusively revealed by The Telegraph, are from a member of his Clacton campaign team.
Richard Everett, a former Reform councillor, has gone to the Metropolitan Police over allegations that the campaign overspent by some £9,000 last year.
To make this teal-on-teal conflict worse, Reform has hit back, accusing Mr Everett of sexual misconduct – a claim he denies.
The extensive allegations, and Reform’s furious defence, are laid bare in our story. Perhaps most eye-catching is the claim that campaign funds were spent on a Reform-themed bar (pictured above), and allegedly were not declared to the authorities.
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Continue reading ➤ | | | There is something about the long, dark evenings that makes you want to curl up with a good book, and if that book includes the odd dead body, so much the better. Here, Jake Kerridge suggests perfect crime-filled festive gifts, from classics such as Georges Simenon’s The Cat, to recent, charmingly retro whodunnits like Andrew Martin’s The Moquette Mystery, set in 1938 and concerning the death of a London Underground poster artist. Continue reading ➤ | | | A few days after giving birth to her first child, Sarah Middleman discovered she’d lost control of her bladder. She became so worried about laughing or sneezing that she started to wear absorbent period pants every day. Determined to regain some strength, Sarah turned to a specialist pelvic health physiotherapist for help.
Continue reading ➤ | | | Damon Syson remembers a time in his 20s when muscle just appeared on his body. Now, aged 56, it’s a very different story. Having spent 18 months away from weight-training while he recovered from cancer, Syson was keen to build his strength back. Here he lists the six high-protein foods we should all be eating every week and why it is so important as you age.
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When Simon Heffer nominated his 12 most overrated cultural phenomena, he didn’t hold back, and the huge response has mixed fervent assent and thunderous outrage.
I certainly experienced both while reading. I roared in agreement with Simon’s takedown of Anthony Powell’s novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time (try as I might, I never saw what was poignant or poetic about people who were at boarding school together bumping into each other in west London a few years later). I was scandalised, however, by his dismissal of Withnail and I, which I think is one of the funniest films ever made.
The entry on Mozart, too, was always going to be a tad contentious (I’m not sure I could have disagreed more). “To compare him to Lennon and McCartney is an insult,” wrote Edward Fitzgerald. “His music is clearly sensational.” Others, however, such as Richard Gamman, were glad that someone had finally spoken for them: “What a relief to learn that I am not alone in my reluctance to worship Mozart. Unfortunately, this view is not shared by Radio 3, which can’t get enough of him, and evidently thinks its audience can’t either.”
Cat Arwood agreed about the Barbican: “Such bad architecture should be made a crime. Anyone can avoid a novel, a play or a painting, but there is no escaping our built environment.”
Jason Heppenstall’s bête noire was a painting that is actually rather hard to escape: “Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Once somebody points out that it’s just a badly-drawn labrador, you can’t unsee it.”
And Phil Stannard had a few more candidates: “The Mona Lisa, the Pyramid at the Louvre and the complete works of William Shakespeare. I rather like the Barbican.” What’s on your list? Send me your nominations here, and my favourites (or the ones I find most outrageous) will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, for which you can sign up to here.
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After 16 containers fell off a cargo ship in choppy seas near the Isle of Wight, beachgoers were warned they could be prosecuted if they took the contents of them. What were the containers carrying?
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