A (somewhat random) collection of recent essays and stories from around the web that have caught my eye and are worth plucking out to be re-read – the first in an occasional series on Panademonium. . The Assassin’s Veto: Blasphemy and Charlie Hebdo Myra MacDonald, War on the Rocks, 11 April 2016 You don’t need to like Charlie Hebdo. But you should asking why anyone should compromise with the most regressive forces in Islam represented by the men who killed […]

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It has been an eventful year on Pandaemonium, not least because of the redesign, which seems mostly to have gone well. My thanks to everyone who has read, commented on and supported this blog. Here are some of the highlights of 2013 on Pandaemonium. Immigration Throughout the year much of British politics (indeed of European politics) has been dominated by the issue of immigration. It is an issue that has taken up much of my writing on Pandaemonium too. I reviewed […]

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The new Pandaemonium is slowly evolving. There is a new books page, and I have added the introductions to both From Fatwa to Jihad and Strange Fruit, as well as reviews of both books. I have put up, too, the opening section to my forthcoming book (or rather, extended essay) Multiculturalism and its Discontents, due out next month. There is now an online Pandaemonium bookshop (powered by Amazon) from which you can buy both my books and some of my favourite works […]

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…According to you, that is. Here are the ten most popular posts on Pandaemonium from 2012. One, ‘Rethinking the idea of “Christian Europe”‘, is actually from 2011 but was sufficiently read this year to make it on to this list: 1 The myths of Muslim rage 2 To name the unnameable 3 What is wrong with multiculturalism? 4 Who needs God? 5 Nietzsche, nihilism and the death of God 6 Beyond the sacred 7 Abortion, infanticide, humanity, free speech 8 […]

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