The Assassin’s Veto

Mike Freer MP: “They have silenced me.” (Mary Turner for The Free Press)
A British minister is forced out of parliament by Islamist threats. Plus: King Charles, woke kindergarten, and a pitch-perfect Grammys.
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→ The assassin’s veto: When public figures are threatened by Islamists, it changes their life. Just ask the novelist Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding after Iranian theocrats put a bounty on his head for publishing The Satanic Verses in 1988. Thirty-four years later, when many thought the threat to Rushdie had passed, he was nearly killed in an
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