Monday 11 March 2019

An Impressionable Age?

On the British State's watch, Shamima Begum was groomed in the usual sense of the word.

She arrived in Syria, on the side that was supported by the British Government, when she was 15. She was married more or less immediately, and she became pregnant more or less immediately after that.

If, however, she is now old enough to be accountable for her subsequent actions, then let us hear no more about how George Soros was "too young" to have founded his fortune by selling his fellow Hungarian Jews to the Nazis.

Or about how Alija Izetbegović was "too young" to have been a recruitment sergeant for the SS, thereby creating the network that would eventually propel him to power.

And that is before we start about the DUP and the Ulster Resistance. Or about what numerous people in or near the present Government were doing in the 1980s.

Never mind a lot later than that in the case of, most obviously, Toby Young.

He was not very young, but 54 years old, when a man who believed that race was a biological category was to have been given charge of the Office for Students by a Government that did not believe that sex was a biological category.

If Begum is responsible for her actions, then he is most certainly responsible for his.

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