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Boris Johnson appeared to take aim at the US vice president today, branding his comments that immigrants are erasing British civilisation as ‘b******s’. The former prime minister said: ‘The population of New York that was born abroad is virtually identical [to London]. ‘I think in America, about 30 per cent of people are either first or second generation immigrants. The statistic I used to cite was that 40 per cent of our population was born abroad. ‘So all these raving about civilisational erasure, “Britain's going down the tubes” - I think it’s b******s.' According to the 2021 census, around 41...

David Cameron’s claim that failure to arrive at a ‘two-state solution’ to the Arab-Israel impasse has caused terrorism and instability and helped excuse authoritarianism is surely a first for a British Prime Minister in its perversity and ignorance. First, the current unrest convulsing the Arab and Muslim world demonstrates that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is actually irrelevant to the protesters’ concerns, which are about the enslavement imposed upon them by their own regimes. And then he gets the relationship between the ‘peace process’ and terrorism the wrong way round. The failure of the two-state solution is not...