Free thinking. Straight talking. Explore more opinion from the nation’s leading comment writers. | | Robert Garson, seen here second to the right of Donald Trump, says he can see “no future” for Jews in the UK |  | Robert Mendick Chief Reporter, in Miami | After the Islamist attack on a synagogue in Manchester in October, Robert Garson, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, reached an uncomfortable conclusion: Jews were no longer safe in Britain.
Garson responded to the tragedy by starting talks with the US state department about providing sanctuary for British Jews fleeing anti-Semitism.
The Manchester-born barrister told The Telegraph that he could see “no future” for Jews in the UK and laid much of the blame on Sir Keir Starmer for allowing anti-Semitism to flourish.
He said he had raised the idea of offering the US as a safe haven to British Jews with Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump’s anti-Semitism tsar. Trump appointed Garson to the US Holocaust Memorial Council last May after firing board members appointed by Joe Biden. | As a National Rifle Association-licensed instructor, Garson says he will ‘train any Jewish person that wants to learn’ | Garson, who moved to the US from London in 2008, said: “I have spoken to the state department as to whether the president should be offering British Jews asylum in the US.
“It is certainly not an unattractive proposition. It is a highly educated community. I have spoken to people in the state department and I have mentioned it in my role on the Holocaust Museum board. It is a populous that speaks English natively, that is educated and doesn’t have a high proportion of criminals. There were conversations.”
Read the full story and Robert’s interview here ➤ | | Ashley Jordan, left, speaks to The Telegraph for the first time about her decade in jail | In spring 2008, life was perfect for Ashley Jordan. She’d met the man of her dreams, Albert Debelbot, also serving in the US military in South Korea, and the pair married when she was one month pregnant.
The couple returned to the US, where Ashley gave birth prematurely. That was when their lives fell apart. After two days, their daughter developed erratic breathing and a lump on her forehead. She died in hospital.
A year later, the couple were convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. They spent more than a decade behind bars.
They may have stayed there, were it not for the actions of a waitress, Jocelyn Li. In August 2011, she’d lost custody of two of her children in a hearing presided over by the same judge who oversaw the murder trial. She was shocked at Judge Douglas Pullen’s misogynistic tone. | Ashley’s defence team with Jocelyn (in the green dress) | Vowing revenge, she investigated other cases of his. In 2012, Jocelyn wrote to Ashley telling her why she thought she and Albert were innocent. Slowly, Jocelyn pieced together the missing evidence, and the Wisconsin Innocence Project agreed to take up the case. The couple finally walked free in 2020.
Ashley was handed her daughter’s ashes as she left court. “That was my first time holding her since we went to the hospital and I gave her to the nurses. It was a very emotional time,” she tells The Telegraph in an exclusive interview, which reveals the true horror of her ordeal.
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I like the Cornish expression “dreckly”, which denotes an indeterminate unit of time. If you promise to do something dreckly, it may get done at some point, but you also reserve the right not to do it at all. It’s a word that keeps proceedings relaxed, even if it’s probably not something you want to hear from, say, an ambulance driver.
Anyway, it came to mind the other day as I was reading a correspondence about Royal Mail, whose services can make snails look positively cheetah-like.
Rebecca Ringshall got things started: “On 19 Dec last year, I sent signed documents to Scottish Widows in Edinburgh. I paid for the Royal Mail track and trace service – plus the next-day, signed-for service – in order to be confident that the envelope would arrive promptly. As yet, it has not been delivered. Has the phrase ‘next day’ been redefined?”
This struck a chord with Alison Coote: “In 2024, a get well card for my niece arrived two months after her return from hospital, and a friend’s 70th birthday card arrived two weeks after the event. On 3 Jan 2025, I posted a sympathy card, including a letter, to a friend who had lost her father on Christmas Day 2024. This was only travelling 1.5 miles and I could have hand-delivered it, but, not wishing to intrude, I posted it. More than a year later, it has still not arrived. Just where does all this post go?”
It’s a good question. Chris Yates, meanwhile, pointed out that dreckly services are in operation elsewhere: “It is not just the Royal Mail definition of ‘next day’ that should be challenged. I needed an engineer to repair my oven and rang one who advertised ‘same-day or next-day service’. I was offered an appointment in 10 days’ time.” Can you beat these examples? Send your responses here and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of From the Editor PM, to which you can sign up here.
Please confirm in your reply that you are happy to be featured and that we have your permission to use your name. | Caption competition with... |  | Matt Pritchett Cartoonist | Hello,
For today’s caption contest, we have two White House officials – with Donald Trump always in the headlines it’s completely up for grabs what this could be. As always, I’m excited to hear your thoughts.
We also have our winner from last week below.
We had so many entries for my reporter in the snow it was difficult to choose, but in the end Graham edged past the competition with his caption on the US president’s desire to purchase Greenland... P.S. for an inside look at what inspires my weekly cartoons, you can sign up for my personal subscriber-exclusive newsletter here. | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
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