Douglas Murray is a neoconservative journalist who writes for The Spectator. He used to run a think tank, the Centre for Social Cohesion,1 which was later subsumed into another think tank, the Henry Jackson Society. Among other activities, these think tanks feed news stories to tabloid and broadsheet press, contributing to the almost daily anti-immigration headlines that we have had for the last 20 years. He has now written a book about immigration into Europe that has been a bestseller and has been well reviewed by such luminaries as Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.2
Murray argues that a post-Christian Europe has lost its identity. The current liberal consensus depends on talk about rights, yet rights, he argues, cannot exist unless they are guaranteed by a God who recognises the sacredness of individual life. On its own, a rights-based ethic will simply fail; it …