"There is, many critics insist, nothing 'far right' or 'racist' about wanting to restrict immigration or in raising concerns about radical Islamists. That is true."
"There is, though, something profoundly pernicious about demonising immigrants, describing asylum seekers as constituting an 'invasion', castigating Muslims as being incompatible with western societies, obsessing over London becoming a 'minority white' city, claiming that immigration has led Britons into 'surrendering their territory without a shot being fired', fearing that Europe is 'committing suicide'."
"These are far-right themes now advanced by mainstream intellectuals and politicians.
If the label 'far right' seems redundant to some these days, that is largely because arguments that once were the staple of the political fringe now nestle at the heart of mainstream debate."