Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

Is suicide bombing now a Yorkshire tradition?

Life has changed in Dewsbury and Bradford. We've let people there down – but not in the way the bien pensants tell you

issue 20 June 2015

Where would you rather live, Dewsbury or Bradford? I ask because it seems that there are probably some good property deals to be had in this particular corner of West Yorkshire right now, as a consequence of half the population decamping to Syria in order to blow themselves up. I mean, property was pretty cheap already — in Savile Town, Dewsbury, right in the heart of the Muslim ghetto, you can buy a nice grey stone cottage for not much more than fifty grand.

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