Former Master of the Rolls says his bags are metaphorically packed

Lord Dyson, the former Master of the Rolls and Supreme Court judge, has disclosed that his bags are metaphorically packed as he says we are living in dangerous times in Britain today.

Insisting that he has a strong sense of his Jewishness and describing himself as “a fully committed Jew” and a Zionist, the former second most senior judge in England and Wales observes in an interview with the JC that he felt awkward early in his career about revealing his Jewishness to non-Jewish colleagues, which he ascribes to a Jewish “sense of insecurity”.

Lord Dyson elaborated: “I really wanted to say this publicly because when I mention it to non-Jewish friends they can’t believe it. They ask how can someone like [me], who is seen as an establishment figure, well embedded in English society, seen the Queen, all this sort of stuff, how can you have these feelings of insecurity…Yet I’ve found so many successful [Jewish] people in professions of all kinds say the same thing”, namely that they feel “fundamentally” insecure in the UK.