The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble those of the 1930s, being prone to denounce a development or policy they disdain as being ‘just like Nazi Germany’. To be fair, they have a point. It’s not just the street brawls we’ve seen in Manchester and Lyon over the last week, between hard left and hard right youths, that should arouse such unnerving comparisons. It’s also because we are living in an age of appeasement. And this time it’s the liberal left who are doing the appeasing.

This was a textbook case of appeasement: not a tactical retreat to be dismissed as a one-off, but an action consistent with a sustained process of surrender

This was a textbook case of appeasement: not a tactical retreat to be dismissed as a one-off, but an action consistent with a sustained process of surrender

This trend continues to make itself more obvious. Government figures show that less than 3 per cent of honour crimes were successfully prosecuted last year. Last year, 2,949 honour-related offences were recorded in Britain, but only 95 defendants were prosecuted. What seems clear is that the authorities are consistently failing to prosecute and prevent honour-based abuse. Responding to these findings, Nick Timothy MP, the shadow justice secretary, says that ‘the........

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