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An attack in Golders Green yet again exposes the rise in anti-Semitism in Britain today,

putting pressure on a government still mired in the Peter Mandelson scandal.

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Westminster has concluded, Kirstama has two options. Fight or flight? Our political editor, Alvare,

says the Prime Minister has made a decision and raised his fists. I'm Anusha Kellyan and you're

listening to The Politics Show from the New Statesman. Alva Ray is racing over here from

Westminster, but we have you, our editor-in-chief, Tom McTake. Hi, Tom. I'll have to do for now.

You'll do, you'll do. So, yeah, it feels horrible actually today, doesn't it?

Thinking about what has happened yesterday. And some of the friends I was speaking to last night and this morning

You know really sort of brought it home to me because they were saying that you know

Jewish friends of mine who said that they just feel that people don't understand

But how small and concentrated an area of North London that just feels completely under attack

and that they feel that people just don't seem to understand that, that sense of being under siege.

But you were there.

I mean, is that how it felt?

It really did feel like that.

And I know that that sounds like a laramist language.

But what's really interesting is that there is this security and sort of emergency services infrastructure

within Golders Green and other, you know, heavily, areas heavily populated by Jews. So you have sort

of, sort of their own security guards, the ambulance service where the four ambulances

were set to light only a few weeks ago.

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