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The public know how these attacks happen — unlike the politicians

Rod Liddle

Wednesday, 4th July 2007

Rod Liddle says that the car-bomb plot was the predictable consequence of multiculturalism, lax immigration, mad human rights laws and neocon aggression. Shame the government can’t see this

The public is perpetually outraged by such clear absurdities and, on this occasion at least, the government seemed a little vexed too. But there was no resolve to enact legislation (or repeal existing legislation) to prevent such outrages occurring again. Faced with the law — and in particular, international treaties to which we gladly affixed our names in simpler times — the government feels and perhaps is impotent. It is surely only a matter of time before someone who comes before the immigration appeals court is allowed to stay and later blows himself up in a public place. Perhaps it has happened already.

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For MEPs, public opinion is merely an inconvenience

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The European Parliament disdains the very people it is supposed to represent, says Daniel Hannan

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Mary Wakefield talks to the former Labour minister about the financial crisis and the basic decency at the heart of all human beings

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Why my sofa is the best seat in the House

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Zardari is even more afraid than Musharraf

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Have we ever faced an enemy more stupid than Muslim terrorists?

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These narcissistic adolescent halfwits should not fill us with fear, says Rod Liddle. The aircraft plot trial showed yet again that those who wish to murder us with fizzy pop and peroxide are a bunch of cowards

Poles are the fall guys of the immigration debate

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The taboo on discussing migration has only been partly lifted, says Dennis Sewell. We pretend that all migrants are the same, whereas the statistics reveal some uncomfortable truths

Our survey shows British Muslims don’t want sharia

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Don’t believe the Lord Chief Justice any more than the Archbishop of Canterbury, say Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi

McCain is in for a terrible shock if he wins

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Reihan Salam says that most Republicans have no idea how much the American social landscape has changed. They should learn from Obama’s Google-like appeal