Paddy O’Connell

And then things are, shall I say, on this busy news weekend, fluid.

Yes, you don't know what you're doing.

That's been said.

No, look, thank you very much for listening and well done to our colleagues making all this happen and the rivals, the people doing, bringing all the results all over the UK.

Yes.

Thank you very much for listening and goodbye.

Paddy, we are days away from what I've ridiculously been calling Mega May for ages, which is a huge set of elections on Thursday.

So you might at this moment in the news cycle expect that all we would be talking about is the particular ward of a particular council where some controversy has meant that a particular councillor might not win his seat.

However, due to the terrible events of the week and the attack on Jewish men in a North London suburb, all eyes politically have been on hatred and racism against Jewish people, otherwise known as anti-Semitism.

And says the boss of the Met Police, the most senior cop in the country, who did a very unusual thing.

He put a letter in public to Zach Polanski, essentially really slapping him down hard for criticising the behaviour of his officers, who, as the Met believe, put themselves into the line of danger.

to try to stop this attacker who's now facing charges doing any more harm.

So we had a terrible event happening in a Jewish community.

There was then a terrible political row in the aftermath of that.

And we'll get into that, but also hear the firsthand experiences of some young Jewish people on this Saturday's edition of Newscast.

And it's Laura in the studio.

And in a few minutes, we'll speak to Judith Morris, one of our special correspondents at the BBC.

Judith has been busy speaking to Jewish people in the community over a long period of time and also, of course, covered the synagogue attack in Manchester back in the autumn.

Because one of the horrors of this story, Paddy, is it is familiar now in Britain in the 2020s that there is an attack on the Jewish community like this.

We don't say that, that there's to the exclusion of any other community.