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The West has sleepwalked into mass migration for more than a decade. Will a glaring breach of its borders jar it awake? Douglas Murray weighs the case.

The suspect in Berlin’s recent rampage was known to authorities. He slipped through the cracks because leaders minimize the threat of radical Islam.

I have spent part of the past week thinking about imposter syndrome, and how we might be able to give it to more people. In an interview this week, Andy Burnham’s best friend Steve Rotheram, who happens to be the Mayor of Liverpool, said that our latest Prime Minister had struggled with imposter syndrome…

It’s hard to hold anyone responsible for anything today in British politics. That’s because no sooner have the facts emerged than everybody in Westminster has played another game of musical chairs. If the word “amusing” can be used in the same paragraph as “attempted beheading” allow me one amusing example.

The mayor accused Israel’s leader of genocide and the maiming of children. And he wants to make an enemy of America’s closest ally, writes Douglas Murray.

I don’t know if you remember that old saw: “Always speak ill of the dead.” I don’t recall being brought up with it myself, but a number of people apparently were. After the brutal killing of Ann Widdecombe last week we saw some fine examples of people following this rule.

‘Right-wing governments’ aren’t the reason Egypt and Turkey rejected gay travelers. But many Westerners insist that every foreign vice is caused by colonialism, writes Douglas Murray.

Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and others have pumped out noxious conspiracies about the tragedy for months, writes @DouglasKMurray. Finally, the world is getting to hear more about what actually happened that day in Utah.

In January this year Dominic Cummings – once of this parish – warned The Spectator’s editor and assistant editor that Whitehall and the establishment parties would ‘stop at nothing’ to prevent Nigel Farage from becoming prime minister.

There were many reasons why 2016 was a strange year. One of them was the halfhearted effort by people on both sides of the Atlantic to try to understand why voters had voted the ‘wrong’ way in the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election.

The banned film about migrant crime rightly indicts Europe’s elites. But it could stoke intemperate rage along with righteous anger.

Now that Starmer has reached that end, and indeed the end of that end, the question returns: why did he want it? Why do any of them want it?