A nation worthy of the name can have but one authentic day to celebrate and affirm its unity. Here's a heartening impression drawn from the last time I marched:  Asian families whose little kids bore crayoned messages on sheets of white card. 'Thank you' was what they said

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In Melbourne alone, three parliamentary seats are held by Labor courtesy of Muslim votes. This is change on a tectonic scale, and that makes the official refusal to acknowledge the inclination to violence of Islam's more ardent strains very  worrying indeed

I hope, in my piece last month, I didn’t gush […]