Zack Polanski: The police should not be above scrutiny
Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips
Sky News
4.0 • 156 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Trevor Phillips hears from Zack Polanski after he faced criticism for retweeting a post about the arrest of the Golders Green attack suspect. We also hear from Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander about what the Government is doing to tackle the rise in antisemitism.
With the Holyrood elections next week, the SNP's Westminster Leader Stephen Flynn tells Trevor that there will be another independence referendum if his party wins a majority.
Our panel this week to help us make sense of everything is Former RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, Times columnist Melanie Phillips and Former Number 10 Director of Policy Polly Mackenzie.
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| 0:00.0 | Shine Nightwalk London is a 10K half marathon or full marathon supported walk around the city at night on the 19th of September to raise vital money for cancer research UK. |
| 0:10.0 | It's also... |
| 0:11.0 | Everyone walking with all their colours, twinkling away. |
| 0:14.0 | We can actually see how nice London is and London is different at night time. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a celebration of life and it gives hope. |
| 0:21.0 | Being able to raise money for cancer research UK. |
| 0:23.8 | Step towards a brighter future and sign up at shinewark.org. |
| 0:27.8 | Together, we are beating cancer. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome to Sunday morning with Trevor Phillips. When my family settled in North London 75 years ago, |
| 0:42.7 | many white people moved out of the streets where we lived. The exceptions were the Irish, |
| 0:48.6 | poor immigrants like ourselves, and the Jews. They were often our landlords and my parents sometimes grumbled about the rents, |
| 0:57.4 | but they gave us homes when no one else would. And we also knew that they felt just as despised as we did. |
| 1:06.0 | Many Jews hope that this prejudice, centuries old, would fade with time. But 30 years ago, I co-wrote |
| 1:12.8 | a report entitled, Antisemitism, a very light sleeper, a phrase coined by the Irish writer |
| 1:19.4 | Connor Cruz O'Brien, who warned that it would be awakened again in decades to come. He was right. |
| 1:27.3 | For example, I was stunned to learn just a few weeks ago |
| 1:31.0 | that a survey of British university campuses found that one in five students would never |
| 1:36.6 | want to share a home with a Jewish person. But you don't have to have any particular fellow |
| 1:43.0 | feelings for Britain's Jews to understand two things about the recent spate of shootings, stabbing and firebombs. |
| 1:51.1 | First, these attacks have almost nothing to do with what is going on in the Middle East or demonstrations or slogans. |
| 1:58.6 | No one asked Shlomi Rand or Norman Schein what they thought about Gaza before they were |
| 2:04.3 | stabbed in Golders Green. Nobody asked the rabbi at Heaton Park, Manchester, if he had preached |
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