All women have the ‘right’ to wear the burka, but they shouldn’t — it’s just rude

People don’t half talk a lot of dross about the burka. Or rather, the burka doesn’t half make people talk a lot of dross, about everything else. Nicolas Sarkozy, the four-foot-tall French President, has decided that his countrywomen don’t have a ‘right’ to wear the burka. Damian Green, our own, taller, immigration minister, has decided that British women do have a ‘right’ to wear the burka. I haven’t a clue what either of them are on about. I wonder if they do.

It’s easy to get bogged down in this one. There’s altogether too much going on. Popular consensus is confused, but seems to be veering towards the view that all women in Islamic dress are actually nurturing secret desires to dress like Beyoncé, but afraid that their menfolk, who are rapists, might bury them up to their necks in sand and throw rocks at them until they think better of it.