David Cameron's recent speech against multiculturalism struck me as mealy-mouthed. He refused to acknowledge that Islam is the problem, not "Islamism" or "extremism". Still, it has offended the usual suspects - the Muslim Council of Britain, for example, and demented loon Madeleine Bunting.
Somebody, possibly Hugh, wrote something along the lines that Cameron is like the Chief Executive of a large corporation. You get the feeling that he gave his anti-multiculturalism speech because he was in Munich and wished to please his client Angela Merkel, just as his awful speech in Turkey was pitched at Erdogan and any business opportunities he could get out of the Turks.
Pat Condell draws attention to the missing bit in Cameron's speech - the camel in the room, as it were. He packs quite a punch for someone who may well be a vegetarian: [The Iconoclast] Read more
