When every mosque, temple, synagogue, church, chapel and gurdwara wants its own free school, what hope have we for a national education system that integrates rather than segregates?
Religion should be confined to church, chapel, mosque, synagogue and personal choice.
But there is plenty left to enjoy: the 15th-century castle, the even older cathedral, the Renaissance town hall, the synagogue.
Only a handful, however, are reported to have started to attend a synagogue in the Mallorcan capital of Palma.
In Germany last month, molotov cocktails were lobbed into the Bergische synagogue in Wuppertal – previously destroyed on Kristallnacht – and a Berlin imam, Abu Bilal Ismail, called on Allah to "destroy the Zionist Jews … Count them and kill them, to the very last one".
To attack a synagogue and a kosher grocery store is quite simply antisemitism and racism".
In one case, Shapps was visiting a synagogue for the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur (although it was not specified whether that was in 2013 or 2014), on another he was watching his son play football and on a third occasion he was on a Conservative away day.
His father managed to escape the subsequent Gestapo sweeps by hiding in a local synagogue that had survived the flames of Kristallnacht.
