Patience and civility is part of our culture.

But any threshold of patience must be stretched to breaking point at the sight of self-proclaimed human rights advocates describing the world’s most wanted terrorist Mohammed Emwazi as a “kind and gentle” man while at the same time attacking the very intelligence services who ensure we sleep soundly at night.

It is hard not to feel that our tolerance is being taken advantage of and that must now stop.

The first thing the Home Office must do is to launch an investigation into the “human rights” organisation Cage whose frontman Moazzam Begg was held in Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years.

Urgent action must also be taken to address growing Islamic militancy in Britain’s universities, particularly Westminster where Emwazi studied and may have been radicalised.

For too long academies have stood by while extremist clerics were invited to lecture to Muslim students on campus.

Indeed, on the day Jihadi John was unmasked a talk by Haitham al-Haddad, a radical cleric who has said homosexuality is a “scourge”, spoken in favour of female genital mutilation and made anti-Semitic comments, was hastily cancelled.

While freedom of speech is a fundamental right in our liberal democracy the freedom to incite violence and hatred is not. 

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Deliver health parity 

GREAT strides have been made in the campaign to achieve parity of esteem between physical and mental health since we launched our award-winning crusade three years ago.

However as the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group will reveal this week, there is still more that needs to be done.

The main political parties deserve credit for putting mental health firmly on the agenda, not least with the announcement last year of a new waiting-time standard that will mean those with mental health conditions wait no longer for treatment than those with other health needs.

What we now need to see is all the good words translated into good deeds.

Parity of esteem must be embedded into the mindset of all health professionals and policy-makers, from the Health Secretary to the nursing assistant.

Only then can we ensure that people with mental health problems are treated with the same respect and dignity as those with physical health problems. 

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Len's language of love 

IT IS generally thought communication is the key to a happy marriage but that does not seem to be true when it comes to wartime sweethearts Len and Louise Davies.

For when Len met the love of his life and wife of almost 70 years in a Belgian café in 1945 she couldn’t speak a word of English... and by the time he learnt her native Flemish they simply could not be bothered fighting.