This Leicester Square outrage beggars belief

THERE are two hair-raising aspects about the antisemitic attack on a group of friends having a night out in the small hours of Sunday morning.

One - obviously, self-evidently, goes without saying - is that it's repulsive that people should be picked on for speaking Hebrew in public. It's odious that an individual can be asked in London whether he or she is Jewish and then subjected to a barrage of abuse...