“[S]uspension of normal safeguards was often unjustifiable, costing the public purse billions and eroding trust in political institutions.” Billions? Hang on. What about the migrants? An aspect of ‘our values’
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51