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UPDATED 05/03/16

Winner of #TheTrashies 2015 – Grace Dent

The Speech

The Shredder

• Boris Johnson: For their sake, immigrants must speak the language of Shakespeare (telegraph.co.uk)
• Robert Fisk: Being coy doesn’t change the reality of modern Pakistan — a corrupt, politically savage and physically broken society (independent.co.uk)
• Todd Kliman: Can Ethopian cuisine become modern? (washingtonian.com)
• Andrew Sparrow: Anti-extremist plan to push ‘British values’ and link benefits to learning English (theguardian.com)
• Grace Dent: If teenage girls want to join Isis in the face of all its atrocities, then they should leave and never return (independent.co.uk)
• James Kirkup: Worried about Muslims in Britain? Here’s the answer (telegraph.co.uk)
• Alessandra Stanley: Wrought in Rhimes’ image: Viola Davis plays Shonda Rhimes’ new tough heroine (NYTimes.com)
• Raf Sanchez: Death in paradise: St Lucia haunted by Roger Pratt’s murder (telegraph.co.uk)
• Nicholas Kristof’s tweet whitesplaining activism (twitter.com)
• Anil Dawar: New migrant flood on way (express.co.uk)
• Amir Tahera: Lesson of the ‘Mad Mullah,’ the original beheading jihadist (nypost.com)
• Gavin McInnes: Nous sommes tout de Français  (takimag.com)
• Cathy Newman’s #VisitMyMosque tweets (twitter.com)
• Heather Saul: ‘Attractive’ jihadists used as ‘eye candy to recruit British girls into extremist groups’  (independent.co.uk)
• Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa: Will it take the end of the world for Obama to recognize Isis as ‘Islamic’? (thedailybeast.com)
• The Economist: How a schoolgirl was radicalised (economist.com)
• Graeme Wood: What Isis really wants (theatlantic.com)
• Asra Q. Nomani: Meet the honor brigade, an organized campaign to silence debate on Islam (washingtonpost.com)
• Daniel Finkelstein: Muslims must flush out killers in their midst (thetimes.co.uk)
• Nigel Farage: Ukip’s immigration policy is built on fairness (telegraph.co.uk)
• Lizzie Dearden: Ed Miliband says Ukip supporters’ migration concerns are ‘based on reality, not prejudice’ (independent.co.uk)
• Ruth Styles: Bright bead collars, mud make-up and cow’s BLOOD for breakfast: Stunning photos reveal the fascinating world of Kenya’s Samburu (dailymail.co.uk)
• Jeffrey Gettleman: Nairobi’s Latest Novelty: High-End Mac and Cheese, Served by Whites (nytimes.com)
• Ruth Styles: Sun, sea, sand and some VERY scary locals! On the tourist trail in war-torn Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region (dailymail.co.uk)
• Nicholas Kristof: Moonshine or the Kids? (nytimes.com)
• Richard Littlejohn: No, Britain is not to blame for Jihadi John (dailymail.co.uk)
• Michael Smith: Confessions of a Public Defender (amren.com)
• Ron Feingold: A Futile Letter from a University of Minnesota Student to Academia (huffingtonpost.com)
• Boris Johnson: The answer to the Ukip anger is simple: vote David Cameron (telegraph.co.uk)
• David Aaronovitch: Let’s be honest. There’s a clear link with Islam (thetimes.co.uk)
• Nick Cohen: Feminism Or Islamism: Which Side Are You On? (nickcohen.net)
• Rachel Avraham: The Plight of Homosexuals in Egypt (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
• Piers Morgan: If black Americans want the N-word to die, they will have to kill it themselves (dailymail.co.uk)
• Rod Liddle: The words ‘terrorist attack’ only dignify the barbarism (spectator.co.uk)
• Alan Judd: How to spot a terrorist living in your neighbourhood (telegraph.co.uk)
• Emma Barnett: Stop pitying British schoolgirls joining Islamic State – they’re not victims (telegraph.co.uk)
• Douglas Murray: London’s pro-Palestine rally was a disgusting anti-Semitic spectacle (spectator.co.uk)
• Justin Slaughter: “I consider myself a mipster”: How Muslim hipsters are forging their own identity (salon.com)
• Ryan Parry: EXCLUSIVE: ‘I saw Whitney and Bobby Brown smoke crack in front of their five-year-old daughter.‘ (dailymail.co.uk)
• Sam Creighton: All-white Moses row: £90m Ridley Scott epic slammed over lack of black actors playing Egyptians (dailymail.co.uk)
• Gwyneth Paltrow in “I am African” campaign
• Claire Cohen: Delhi gang-rape film: The haunting faces of India’s hidden women were revealed at last (telegraph.co.uk)
• Paul Scholes: I don’t believe Jonny Evans was spitting at Papiss Cissé. It was a reflex. But what the Newcastle striker did next was horrible (independent.co.uk)
• Emma Barnett: Racists are alive and well in Britain – but I’m not one of them (telegraph.co.uk)
• Adrian Michaels: Muslim Europe: the demographic time bomb transforming our continent (telegraph.co.uk)
• Chris Maume: It is tough to admit, but Nigel Farage may be right about immigration (independent.co.uk)
• Thomas Adamson: When in Paris: Kim Kardashian and Jared Leto go platinum (bigstory.ap.org)
• Andrew Norfolk, Sam Coates and Matt Dathan: Call for national debate on Muslim sex grooming (thetimes.co.uk)
• Nick Cohen: How liberal Britain is betraying ex-Muslims (spectator.co.uk)
• Aleksander Chan: Skid Row Homeless Man Killed By LAPD Was a Convicted Bank Robber (gawker.com)
• James Slack, Paul Bentley and Sam Marsden: Jihadi John family’s 20 years on benefits: How it’s cost taxpayers up to £400k to house fanatic and his relatives in upmarket areas dailymail.co.uk)
• Ted Lapkin: Islamophobia is a reasonable reaction to jihadi violence and Islam’s aversion to criticism (couriermail.com.au)
• Tim Black: The myth of Islamophobia (spiked-online.com)
• Martin Robinson and Chris Greenwood: The lesbian lover who brainwashed the ‘perfect mum’ into killing her daughter (dailymail.co.uk)
• Brendan O’Neill: Why won’t we tell students that Kant is better than the Koran? (spiked-online.com)
• Douglas Murray: Is the startling rise in Muslim infants as positive as the Times suggests? (spectator.co.uk)
• Cleuci de Oliveira: Saartjie Baartman: The Original Booty Queen (jezebel.com)

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