Why burka bans are a mark of panic and weakness

When Denmark’s burka ban came into effect on August 1, newspaper editors all over Europe gave a sigh of relief: during the barren days of August, what better to generate copy than a febrile clash-of-civilisations story?

The burka has been a double boon to the British media, which got to write about the ban, and then write about Boris Johnson writing about the ban: 17 articles, and counting, in the Guardian - though ...