Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

A new survey that may be of interest

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issue 13 April 2024

My favourite opinion polls are those which elicit enormous shock in the population for stating something everybody knew for ages, or could have guessed. Such as those headlined ‘People in Torquay are happier than people in Rotherham’ – goodness me, etc.

Surely we are reaching the time when bland, deceitful shibboleths should be replaced by reality

The polls that always occasion the gravest shock, however – despite the fact they come out every year or so – are those dealing with the views of the British Muslim community. In the lacunae between these reports their findings are completely ignored in favour of the approved set of lies with which the rest of the British population is fed to keep it amenable. Then another report comes out showing that lots of British Muslims support Hamas or something and we throw our hands up in despair, asking how can this be? We never knew! Perhaps this is why the BBC almost never covers such studies and just continues ignoring the issue.

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