{"id":373338,"date":"2018-08-14T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/using-the-burka-boris-johnsons-bid-for-popularity\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:46:09","slug":"using-the-burka-boris-johnsons-bid-for-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/using-the-burka-boris-johnsons-bid-for-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Burka: Boris Johnson\u2019s Bid for Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Comedy, Boris Johnson, and the Tories \u2013 these three share a certain comforting, if chaotic, affinity, lobbed together in some nightmarish union that risks consuming itself.\u00a0 But times are serious \u2013 profoundly so, we are told: Brexit exercises the nerves as if Britannia were a patient about to expire, and there is the cultural irritation posed by those naughty elements who refuse to do the good thing and integrate themselves into the land of her Britannic majesty.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, Britain has resisted the moves of other states in Europe to impose public bans on such religious coverings as the burka and some of its more expansive cognates.\u00a0 But there is a prevailing appetite for such measures in a climate suffused with notions of civilisation, irate outsiders and insecure insiders.\u00a0 France was a pioneer in that regard, initiating a ban in 2004.\u00a0 In Denmark, rough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/new-burka-ban-draws-protests-denmark\">measures<\/a> have been implemented punishing those who don such headdress in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect chance for Johnson, who remains a smouldering menace to Prime Minister Theresa May, to strike form, even if only to rile critics and keep the blogosphere busy.\u00a0 \u201cIn Britain today there is only a tiny, tiny minority of women who wear these odd bits of headgear,\u201d he noted in his regular <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> column last week.\u00a0 Confidently, he claimed that, \u201cOne day, I am sure, they will go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His has little time for assuming that women have any choice in the matter.\u00a0 \u201cIf you say that it is weird and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/using-the-burka-boris-johnsons-bid-for-popularity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy, Boris Johnson, and the Tories \u2013 these three share a certain comforting, if chaotic, affinity, lobbed together in some nightmarish union that risks consuming itself.\u00a0 But times are serious \u2013 profoundly so, we are told: Brexit exercises the nerves as if Britannia were a patient about to expire, and there is the cultural irritation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}