Shamima Begum remains a threat – she is not the victim the Left pretends

Out . . . for now

TO our surprise, sense has prevailed over the dead-eyed Islamic State terrorist Shamima Begum.

But don’t kid yourself we are yet rid of her for good.

Her lawyers will fight on at the Appeal Court and Supreme Court, hoping that equally liberal judges do their bidding.

Even the tribunal which backed the Home Office’s removal of her citizenship expressed its intense discomfort.

Shamefully, independent terror chief Jonathan Hall also seems to side with the BBC/Labour/Guardian axis of feeble.

The BBC’s funereal tone as it broke the news yesterday spoke volumes.

How hard it has tried to rehabilitate Begum, giving her so much sympathetic airtime it seemed to surprise even her.

In liberal imaginations, she was a naive 15-year-old trafficked by IS for sex, then traumatised by what unfolded.

In reality, at five years over the age of criminal responsibility she enthusiastically joined an anti-Western Islamist death cult already globally infamous for genocidal, medieval brutality.

She planned and concealed her flit to Syria meticulously.

And she threw herself into the terrorist life as IS raped, enslaved and butchered Yazidi girls and burned others alive in iron cages.

Begum was only sorry her side lost.

One initially sympathetic interviewer now concludes she is a remorseless, manipulative narcissist.

Intelligence reports indicate she remains a threat.

She is not the victim the Left pretends.

Defend Prem

THE Premier League is the greatest on the planet. It mustn’t be damaged.

So we are instinctively nervous about a planned new State football regulator.

Its aims are admirable: To give fans a greater say over clubs and a veto on new badges or colours. To outlaw dodgy, asset-stripping owners. To prevent clubs joining a European Super League.

But regulators invariably become power-mad and guilty of over-reach.

That must not happen in this case.

There is talk already of forcibly redistributing big clubs’ millions among smaller ones.

Those profits, though, ultimately attract the world’s top players and coaches, giving the Prem a global allure that rubs off on the lower leagues.

The Government must avoid taking any shine off the jewel in our sporting crown.

Cops probed

POLICE who failed Nicola Bulley and Kiena Dawes now face multiple probes. Good.

Their response was poor, their communications worse.

Kiena, whose story The Sun has highlighted in our campaign against domestic abuse, even criticised the Lancashire force’s lethargy in her suicide note.

Labour MP Jess Phillips rightly questions if cops are “fit for purpose” when people go missing.

These investigations must give the women’s grieving families swift answers.