Burqa row...

The Burqa row rumbles on, but all the participants are still tiptoeing past the issues; it’s still considered impolite to criticise Islam. No one dares to mention that the tenets of Islam are antithetical to the protocols of a modern, liberal, pluralistic democracy; they’re like oil and water. We have to keep pretending that Islam is a “religion of peace”, when we can open the Koran - at any page - and discover this claim to be nonsense. The accusations of “racism” and "Islamophobia" have achieved their aim: closing down intelligent conversation.

Licensed today: a street scene in Chippenham...