If you don’t want your kids joining the jihad, don’t send them to a British university. That is the view of the United Arab Emirates, which has removed the UK from its list of scholarship-eligible student destinations. The programme subsidises Emirati youngsters to attend university overseas, with favoured locations including the United States, Israel and France – and, until recently, Britain.

The FT reports that the decision to drop the UK from the scholarship list is ‘linked to anxiety in the UAE over what it sees as the risk of Islamist radicalisation on UK campuses’, and quotes a source saying Emiratis ‘don’t want their kids to be radicalised on campus’. They are said to be especially concerned about the failure of Keir Starmer’s government to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood.

A Muslim country is so concerned about Britain’s tolerance of Muslim extremism that it no longer wishes to send its youth to study here. Bit of a red flag, I reckon. The UAE is one of the Middle East’s moderate Arab........

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