So, what do you reckon then about the jihadi bride, Shamima Begum, unearthed by the Times’ Anthony Loyd in a refugee camp in Syria? Should she be brought back home for an NHS delivery for her imminent baby – with the cops hovering backstage – or left to stew in a Syrian refugee camp, to give birth in the same conditions as other mothers-to-be? I may be misjudging my readers here, but I fancy I can discern which way most of us would want to go.
But the first thing to say about all this is that this wretched 19-year old is about the least important aspect of the Isis situation. The good news is that the murderous child rapists and genocides of Islamic state are down to their final territorial outpost – making their last stand in an orchard, apparently – which means that the caliphate, as established in 2014, is coming close to its end.
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