megimoo
02-14-2011, 11:46 PM
Ten days after his Munich speech, David Cameron’s refudiation of multiculturalism is still winning approving reviews in the US. And not just from Fox News, which you might expect, but across the spectrum: here, for example, is a piece which Newsweek asked me to write.
The extraordinary thing, in a sense, is that such a speech needed to be made at all. How did we reach the stage where a British Prime Minister had to stand up and say that it was a bad idea to give government funds to groups which reject democracy, personal freedom, the separation of church and state and the equality of women before the law?
How did we come to live in a country where saying something so obvious – so banal, one might almost say – was considered “brave” and “controversial”? O tempora! O mores!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100076075/america-is-still-cheering-david-camerons-rejection-of-multiculturalism/
The extraordinary thing, in a sense, is that such a speech needed to be made at all. How did we reach the stage where a British Prime Minister had to stand up and say that it was a bad idea to give government funds to groups which reject democracy, personal freedom, the separation of church and state and the equality of women before the law?
How did we come to live in a country where saying something so obvious – so banal, one might almost say – was considered “brave” and “controversial”? O tempora! O mores!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100076075/america-is-still-cheering-david-camerons-rejection-of-multiculturalism/