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Will Self argues for greater British cultural self confidence in the debate over the wearing of the veil.
Apologies are not needed for an insistence on uncovered faces in court, he says, and the best safeguard against extremism is engagement with the Western philosophic tradition and its multicultural influences.
"Of course British culture will be changed by the cultures of our recent immigrants, but surely our greatest desideratum is precisely this: to be the heirs, possessors and transmitters of a legacy that is ready and able to adapt."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
Published on Friday, 15th November 2013.
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