Quote of the day

Re burqas and such.  From The Guardian (here):

Boris Johnson’s inalienable right to make hostile remarks was defended this week, as ever, by the assertion that, however crass he is, he can’t be shut down, because we need to “start the debate”. In fact, we do not need Johnson and his cavalier debasement of the public sphere for this debate: we could start and finish it in two minutes. Do we want to police what women wear? No. Do women in burqas pose a significant crime risk? No. Does it matter what they do in France or Denmark, where feminism and race intersect in culturally idiosyncratic ways that we couldn’t emulate even if we wanted to? Not really, no. There, done.

Sorted.