In his column on the Geert Wilders ban, John O’Sullivan writes:
The Brits, asked to choose between multiculturalism and freedom, will choose by degrees to be unfree.
That process is already under way, in Britain, Canada, many European countries.
One insight into why free nations are retreating into darkness comes in this interview with hotshot London lawyer Michael Wachtel. Asked “Who’s your hero and why?”, he replies:
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, not because of his politics or his ideology, but because he refused to be intimidated by a much stronger foe, and he won.
As Bret Stephens wrote in The Wall Street Journal after the Tube bombings, what’s unnerving isn’t what divides mainstream and Muslim Britain but what unites them.