In the UK the "debate" continues.
First, the Daily Mail was
apoplectic with rage (when is it not?) when Conservative environment secretary Caroline Spelman appeared to defend the wearing of burkas.
The Mail followed shortly after with a piece by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown headlined
The burka empowering women? You must be mad, minister. And Brown knows her onions - she is, after all, a Muslim. Even (gasp) a left wing one. (Mail readers' heads must have popped after reading that piece)
The Conservative immigration minister Damian Green was next up, insisting that the French ban was
"very unlikely" to be copied in the UK. (
"Telling people what they can and can't wear, if they're just walking down the street, is a rather un-British thing to do ... we're a tolerant and mutually respectful society.")
All the while, the right wing newspapers are doing their best to faciliate a calm and rational debate on this topic:
I'm confused. I thought it was only "the PC brigade" that called for things to be banned?
As in "Now the PC Brigade wants to ban the veil... in case it offends.... and YOU pay.... " etc etc
Btw, isn't that photo great? Nice and direct, communicating to the dear reader the gravity of what Britain is up against. Photojournalism at its best.