The Court of Appeal has overturned last year’s finding by a High Court judge that Ofsted inspectors were wrong to penalise the mixed-sex Al-Hijrah school in Bordesley Green in Birmingham.

The President of the European Commission’s latest comments about Brexit are about as bizarre as anything heard about the subject. He has claimed among other things that it was the European currency that stopped a land war in Europe breaking out.

Reports that the EU nation states are to discuss a future trade agreement with the UK after Brexit show that it is the EU itself that is being intransigent, and that a policy of being clear that the UK could walk away from the EU with No deal is bearing dividends.

The tobacco industry’s smaller companies are facing worrying developments in the implementation of new anti-business measures drawn up by the European commission. The latest attack on small businesses can be seen in the new Track & Trace regulation.

David Wood, who until 2015 was head of Immigration Enforcement yesterday admitted that at least a million illegal immigrants are at large in the UK. That is a city with the population size of Birmingham. Wood admitted that there are ‘enormous difficulties’ removing overseas nationals but failed to explain what they are. Think-tank Civitas has suggested that illegal immigration is likely to be running at 150,000 year. That’s on top of the near 250,000 net immigration of 2016.