An excellent piece in today’s Daily Telegraph entitled Ten urgent steps to make Britain safer

I support particularly the first point (see below). The fairly unique point about the Islamic terrorism in Britain is that it was carried out not by foreign imports but by people born in our hospitals, educated in our schools, who walk our streets and breathe our air.

Yet they regard us - not themselves but the rest of us - as aliens, foreigners. This must partly be due to the weak sense of identity we, the British, have of ourselves. New Labour, Tony Blair and the general leftist attempt to make us ashamed of our history, our achievements, our dynamism, our courage and inventiveness have combined to create a flaccid, ignorant, weak nation that has nothing to nail its colours to - indeed, outside of the occasional international football match it has no colours to nail - and little self-respect in terms of nation and history.

It is little wonder that if we at best are indifferent to ourselves and, at worst, despise ourselves, then anybody with an alternative culture to Britishness might just go for the alternative. Instead of using foreign-born murderers - as must happen when planning outrages for New York or Madrid - plotters can rely on home-grown, British citizens to do the job against their fellow countrymen.

We can rail at violent Isalm all we like. In many ways though we nurtured this poison in our midst when we decided to embrace multi-culturalism and reject Great Britain.

Here are the Telegraph’s 10 points. The headings seem a bit tame but the text that accompanies each is very sensible and well worth reading. Click here to read the entire article.

1. Confidently assert British values

2. Exclude foreign undesirables

3. Repeal the Human Rights Act

4. Crackdown on propaganda

5. Intercept evidence admissable in court

6. Visible police presence

7. Sensible policing

8. Expectation for Muslims to join the police and security forces

9. Effective border controls

10. Increased detention facilities