A liberal society should permit cultural or religious minorities to wear distinctive clothing - but only if that doesn’t get in the way of an institution’s ability to enforce basic standards of security, which the full veil most definitely does, since it obscures the identity of the person beneath the covering. But it does more even than that. It destroys nothing less than the presumption of equality on which human communication is based. ...read
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The election of Australia's new PM Tony Abbott is clear evidence that genuine conservative policies can win elections
Something truly astounding has happened, writes MELANIE PHILLIPS.The best political candidate for a country's future has won a general election. A true conservative won a general election on true conservative principles. This has just occurred in Australia where the leader of the Liberal (conservative) Party, Tony Abbott, has been elected Prime Minister by a landslide. ...read
A rapier of steel under a blanket of bonhomie. What the bully boys of broadcasting today could learn from Frost
All too often, it is only when someone dies that people suddenly publicly discover that individual’s many virtues. That is almost certainly the case with Sir David Frost, the broadcaster and media mogul who died at the weekend. Sir David's hallmark characteristic was his affability and niceness. And it was this good-natured quality that encouraged people to drop their guard. ...read
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- Migrants march into the night: Germany and Austria announce they WILL let refugees into their countries after thousands walk the 100 miles to the border in desperate bid to start a new life
- VIP child abuse inquiry is staring to unravel: 'Grave doubts' emerge over key witness's claim that he saw boys murdered
- Hugo Boss fined £1.2million for safety failures that led to four-year-old boy being crushed to death by 18-stone mirror that was 'an accident waiting to happen'
- Legends? No, just a pair of fame-hungry psychopaths: As yet another film lionises the Krays, the sickening thing is that it gives these sadists celebrity status they craved
- Apple phones could soon last WEEKS on a single charge: Patent details a fuel cell system that would replace current batteries
- Want to save a packet on Amazon? Brush up on your German! How browsing European versions of the site can help you find bargains
- The Essex boy made good: Jamie Oliver buys a £10million home in the heart of north London luvvie-land
- So what attracted an Uzbek beauty to a Dragons' Den star 31 YEARS her senior who's worth £175million? Duncan Bannatyne's new girlfriend insists she 'adores him as a person'
- Why the Queen's never been happier: Repeats of The Two Ronnies. Gin and Dubonnet with Andrew's girls. Secret trips to West End shows. And a quiet conviction she's saved the monarchy
- Charles takes on more of Queen's foreign trips as monarch approaches her 90th birthday
- Ponies on the pill! Frisky horses given contraceptive by marksman to stop them over-breeding and destroying the landscape
- Anti-fracking protesters to be labelled 'extremists' by police thanks to Government terror strategy
- Teacher crisis is forcing us to recruit abroad due to the shortage of qualified staff in the UK
- Soldier dies at army barracks in Oxfordshire after shooting incident 'involving his own gun'
- Pilot dies after crashing light aircraft into the field where Nigel Farage was seriously injured in 2010 Election accident
- Hillary fumes at Trump for attacking her closest aide Huma as she accuses billionaire of 'innuendo, conspiracy theories and defaming people'
- Is El Chapo hiding in Costa Rica? Net closes on the world's most wanted drug lord after his son forgets to switch off location data in Twitter picture
- Firenado! 800,000 gallons of Jim Beam accidentally released into a Kentucky lake bursts into flames after being hit by lightning... before a tornado sucks the flaming liquid 100 feet up into the air
- Second mistress of Josh Duggar claims she suffered a pregnancy scare after he had unprotected sex with her - as disgraced star 'goes missing' from Christian rehab clinic
- Broken bones, dislocated shoulders and cadets taken away in an ambulance: 30 West Point students injured as annual PILLOW FIGHT turns nasty
- EXCLUSIVE: New York 2015 - FOUR THOUSAND sleeping on the streets, 80 homeless encampments in the city and beggars making $75 a day as arrests for panhandling and street drinking plunge
- Just desserts! Woman throws a tantrum in take-away restaurant and screams at staff over color of their peppers... but gets her comeuppance as she walks out
- Angelina McJolie! Star has Scottish lookalike who has turned down a modelling career in favour of an office job
- Why did Chrissie Hynde date one of the Hells Angels who raped her? She enraged feminists by blaming herself for the attack. But the full story's even more shocking
- Revealed: How the five wealthiest Gulf Nations have so far refused to take a single Syrian refugee
- Woman arrested in the murder of pediatric dentist, 35, who was shot dead as she parked her car in the garage of her luxury Dallas apartment building
- Al Roker's 'Wake Up With Al' Weather Channel show cancelled after stormy emails between him and his boss
- Boy, 10, suffers severe brain damage after 'he and his family were cleared to return to home following botched termite fumigation'
- Married couple arrested and charged with murdering off-duty Texas cop in his home - but their motive remains a MYSTERY
- Tracy Morgan received $90M in settlement with Walmart after fatal New Jersey crash, claims comic - as the newlywed SNL alum moves into a $14m mansion
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