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March 2016

'For Continentals, borders are a deadly serious matter'
Only the British, the offshore islanders, are able to treat borders as a branch of their favourite pastime: gardening. For Continentals, borders are a deadly serious matter. Nothing has proved more radical in the European project than their abolition. It is, however, an experiment that has failed — in part because a necessary condition for demoting internal borders is to create secure external ones. The EU’s failure to provide proper security against a variety of external threats has left Europeans in a state of constant unease. My term for this condition is “border anxiety”.
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Let Justice Be Done Though The Liberal Heavens Fall
NICK COHEN

The migration crisis and a fear of the far-Right has driven many on the Left to abandon equality before the law in favour of ‘noble lies’

A Fascist Coup In Poland? Give Us Poles A Break
AGNIESZKA KOLAKOWSKA
Claims that the newly-elected Law and Justice government has lurched to the far-Right are overblown and come from bad losers
It's Sharia, Not Alcohol, That Threatens Women
JULIE BINDEL
The suggestion that drunkenness means it’s only non-Muslims who have a domestic violence problem ignores the sexism of Islamic laws
 
Double Games Of The UK Muslim Brotherhood
JOHN WARE
The Islamist organisation’s tentacles reach deep into British life. Yet many Muslim leaders in this country deny evidence of its influence
The Land Where History Repeats Itself As Tragedy
HEIDI KINGSTONE
As Nato forces leave and Isis gains ground, Afghanistan continues to fascinate, inspire and dismay the West. We ignore it at our peril
Holocaust Survivors Are Still Waiting For Justice
MICHAEL PINTO-DUSCHINSKY
Victims of the Nazis and their heirs who seek return of their property or compensation are fobbed off by obstructive courts and corporations
 
Rhodes, Race, And The Abuse Of History
NIGEL BIGGAR
The Rhodes Must Fall campaign which divided Oxford was built on a misunderstanding of the past and a manipulation of the truth