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Crime: the streets of London   Thursday 23 May 2013 How does one make sense of the events of which we learned yesterday? What are the policy implications? What do we expect of our legislators? What should we be telling them to do? Experts believe the pair responsible for the murder were using Muslim names and could be of Somali or Nigerian heritage. It is thought they had spent weeks watching the barracks, which the Queen is due to visit next week, prior to the attack. Confronted with such barbarity, however, one is not disposed to take the advice of the Met Police Commissioner, and "remain calm", especially when it took the police – according to most reports – some twenty minutes to arrive at the scene. So where do we go from here? COMMENT THREAD  Richard North 23/05/2013

A terrible secret   Thursday 23 May 2013 According to comments on Robert Henderson's blog I am an "Identity Christian". That makes me a self-hater and "assimilationist" on Anglo Saxon identity. People who share this appellation belong to a group who used to be called "British Israelism". Apparently, they are people holding the belief that Jesus and his family got away to France and then settled in and around these islands. This, apparently, is a 19th century fantasy concocted to serve the needs of imperial "Britain". More recently, we discover, it’s been commandeered by the "celts", to whom "lying comes naturally anyway". Booker doesn't escape scrutiny either. I have a long association with him, and his "anti-racist" credentials are unequivocal, if very often obscured by his mainly writing about energy and social policy. But his son has an Indian wife and since he avoids writing about the subject of immigration and is at ease with miscegenation, that means "he supports the deconstruction of this our or any nation state". And that is the level of political discourse from a group seeking unilateral withdrawal. My posts on the need "to accommodate all manner of legal technicalities before even attempting to escape the EU" are cited as evidence of my being an "Identity Christian". Clearly, I am a thoroughly bad egg. And if you have just read this post, you are probably a traitor.  I thought you needed to know that. COMMENT THREAD