Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed a prominent advertisement for my new book, Londonistan, on the home page of this website. The book, which is being published in the US at the end of April, is an attempt to explain how Britain managed to become the principal hub of Islamist terrorism in Europe.

It is an analysis of the cultural, political and social developments that allowed this extraordinary development to occur. It is a story in which institutions across British society – the judiciary, security circles, the Church of England, the universities, the media – have all been complicit in creating a climate of moral inversion, intellectual confusion and deeply prejudiced irrationality which has allowed clerical fascism progressively to colonise what has become a moral and cultural vacuum.

Far from Britain learning at long last the lessons of this debacle, the book concludes that it is still heavily into a state of potentially lethal denial and appeasement of extremism. This has cut the ground from under the feet of truly moderate British Muslims and, most dangerous of all, failed to engage with what is principally a repudiation of reason and the bedrock values of liberal democracy. The result is that, despite Tony Blair’s image as a cheerleader for America, Britain is now the weak link in the defence of the west.

To order a copy of the book, click on the image of the cover on the home page and you will be linked to amazon.co.uk.

Posted by melanie at March 9, 2006