Hard work should pay. Unlock quality journalism that champions free enterprise. Enjoy three months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | An asylum seeker appears to be baptised in a hotel bathtub |  | Tim Sigsworth News Reporter | Migrants are being baptised in asylum hotel bathtubs by a Christian charity, The Telegraph can reveal.
After we exposed the unusual circumstances, there are concerns among politicians that Muslim migrants are only going through the process to gain asylum.
Carelinks Ministries, a registered charity linked to the minority Christadelphian sect, has visited taxpayer-funded migrant hotels across Britain to conduct the baptisms.
A number of migrants who became Christadelphian after arriving in Britain in recent years have won asylum under the European Convention on Human Rights by arguing they would face persecution if returned to their home countries.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, told The Telegraph that bathtub baptisms were “insanity” and proved the asylum system needed to be “completely dismantled”.
The revelations will fuel concerns that asylum seekers are continuing to fake religious conversions more than a year after Abdul Ezedi, who was granted asylum after being baptised, attacked a woman and two children with a chemical substance.
Churches faced scrutiny over migrant baptisms last year when details of Ezedi’s supposed conversion to Christianity emerged. Friends described him as a “good Muslim” who still ate halal meat.
Continue reading ➤ | | Fiona Goddard, a grooming victim, quit the inquiry’s panel |  | Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor | Sir Keir Starmer is facing a fresh political battle over the national grooming gangs inquiry after two victims quit its advisory panel, with trenchant criticisms of the way the process is being handled.
In powerful testimony, Fiona Goddard and Ellie Reynolds, who were both groomed by gangs as teenagers, said that the Government was still not listening to victims.
They felt their concerns were being ignored, that the establishment was holding sway over who was picked to chair the inquiry to the detriment of victims, and that it was being watered down by covering not just grooming gangs but other forms of child sexual abuse.
That the criticism is coming from victims makes it all the more dangerous for a Government that has consistently argued that it is acting in their interests.
Maggie Oliver, the police whistleblower who exposed the Rochdale scandal, said in response to the resignations: “It really is another cover-up, another attempt to water down what this national inquiry should be.”
Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, went further, writing on X: “Many will now suspect Labour is sabotaging the grooming gangs inquiry and deliberately dragging it out beyond the next election.”
With the controversy over the collapsed Chinese spy case and the row over the ban on Tel Aviv fans travelling to Aston Villa, the Prime Minister now has a third explosive issue in his in-tray.
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| | A Qatar Airways lounge at Hamad International in Doha |  | John Arlidge | Most airports are the ninth circle of hell. Except, that is, if you have one of the golden tickets of aviation: a first or business class boarding pass or top-tier airline status, which guarantees lounge access. As an aviation journalist with decades of experience, I’ve visited hundreds – from the long-lost Concorde Rooms at London’s Heathrow Airport and New York’s JFK to the ultra-modern Qatar Airways’ lounges at Hamad International in Doha. But which is the very best?
If it’s a bit of local personality you’re after, the Finnair lounge in Helsinki – where I sweated out the jet lag on a layover from Tokyo in the sauna – is hard to beat. In Air France’s La première salle at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, it’s naturellement all about the food (the menu is devised by Alain Ducasse). There is, however, one lounge that is better than all the rest. The only downside? It’s a very long way from Britain.
Continue reading ➤ | Linguistic lows Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
We need to talk about annoying expressions (of which “We need to talk about...” is indisputably one). Sophia Money-Coutts’s article – arraigning such inanities as “Chrimbo”, “lived experience” and, perhaps worst of all, “expresso” – has provoked many howls of assent.
It got me thinking about how each decade tends to debase the English language in its own special way. When I was a teenager in the noughties, for instance, there was much grumbling about bland New Labourisms – best practice, value added, level playing field (the present Government’s addiction to the phrase “at pace” arguably harking back to those days). By the time I was in my twenties, things had taken a horrifying turn for the twee: all of a sudden it became socially acceptable to describe your holibobs as totes amazeballs. Now, of course, we live in the age of glowing up and slaying (though I find the Gen Z-ism “touching grass” infinitely preferable to the HR-ism “touching base”).
Some offenders are more resilient than others. “I especially dislike ‘Can I get?’ in coffee shops and cafes,” wrote one reader of a deeply ingrained verbal habit, “and ‘I’m good’ instead of ‘I’m well’. It’s not an evolution of language; it’s a complete misuse.”
Claire Jenkins, meanwhile, defended the term “roasties”, included on Sophia’s list, “as my great-grandmother used that. But to all the others, it’s a resounding yes. It also annoys me when someone writes along the lines of: ‘All invoices must be authorised by myself before returning to yourself.’ Just word salad.”
Too right. And Fiona Carroll’s complaint surely will resonate with anybody in possession of an inbox: “I get irritated when, in reply to my contact, the responder thanks me for ‘reaching out’. I have a mental image of me stretching my arms towards – what, exactly?” Well, then: what’s on your list? You can send me your stories here, or head to our Your Say page on the Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with our journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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