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The ‘positive image’ police: not a pretty picture

Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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Topics Politics

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‘What do Muslim women wearing hijabs and skinny models with jabbing hips have in common? Both have been put under surveillance by the “positive image” police. And only a fool or a government minister could imagine that anything positive will come of it….’

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