Holding an Olympics is a monumental security challenge and the French have fallen at the first hurdle
Gold meddlers
WE don’t envy the French.
Holding an Olympics is a monumental security challenge. And they have fallen at the first hurdle, as it were.
We hope their cops catch those responsible for the rail chaos — and that the rest of the Games goes uninterrupted by malicious saboteurs.
Because it’s always one of the greatest spectacles on Earth, as last night’s opening ceremony in Paris showed.
And, let’s be frank, because Team GB is a squad of absolute superstars whose performances and medal hauls every four years make us immensely proud and insanely excited.
Good luck to them all.
The Sun will be cheering them on for 16 hopefully glorious days.
Grasp the nettle
FOR years Britain kicked the controversy over assisted dying into the long grass.
When it did come to a Parliamentary vote, MPs overwhelmingly rejected it.
But they were significantly out of step with the public who, as surveys show, see the logic of allowing terminally ill patients to end their suffering.
In that 2015 debate one new opposition MP spoke powerfully in favour of legalisation: Keir Starmer.
So it would not be a surprise to see a new vote now.
It is a complex and fraught issue.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting admits he’s conflicted over it.
But it is likely to be debated in the Lords in November, with possibly a free vote in the Commons too.
Terminally ill Esther Rantzen says that gives her hope.
Others argue that allowing assisted dying is a slippery slope and a huge risk to the vulnerable.
But with the practice now legal in several major nations, it is right that we decide once and for all.
Border’s open
THE Tories’ Rwanda scheme was much maligned.
But even the threat of it was beginning to deter illegal migrants.
Some who had already made the crossing fled to Ireland to avoid deportation.
Others stayed put in France waiting for a Labour Government to abandon it. And it did.
Relieved migrants now queuing for a dinghy near Dunkirk know they have no right to enter Britain.
Two we highlight 31 today have been rejected already in the EU.
Another served prison time here, got deported, but is heading back.
There is no deterrent now except the Channel itself — and they are happy to risk that for the instant asylum-seeker status Labour will grant them.
With such an inviting prospect, and so many criminals itching to run this lucrative trafficking racket, Labour’s “smash the gangs” plan could take years to yield results.
We have to hope it eventually does.