A group of Charedi schools face disciplinary measures from Britain’s education regulator Ofsted for refusing to teach LGBT awareness – and rightly so, as their stance is promoting discrimination. Homophobia is not a lifestyle choice. It’s a form of hatred and discrimination. So that’s the charge that must be levelled at the Orthodox Jewish schools in the UK that are wilfully breaking the instructions... 

A mother accused of lying to get her son into a top state school has had charges against her dropped. Mrinal Patel, 41, who gave her mother’s address on her application, would have been the first parent in the country to be prosecuted for school admissions fraud. But Harrow Council in north-west London admitted yesterday it feared its use of the Fraud Act 2006 could be open to challenge because...