It was a matter of some disappointment to me that Kanye West was barred entry to this country as a person not conducive to the public good. Millions of people have arrived here in the past 20 years and, unlike Kanye, have no intention of leaving. I am not sure what proportion of them are “conducive to the public good.” As a kind offascistic Little Englander, I would hazard a guess at about 8 percent, so quite why we singled out Kanye I am not sure. Of course, he courted a little controversy with his exciting song “Heil Hitler.”

No truth, beauty or insight has ever been revealed in a rap song

No truth, beauty or insight has ever been revealed in a rap song

Kanye also divested himself of some anti-Semitic observations via technology’s equivalent of rap music, Twitter. But if we are banning people from the UK because they are anti-Semitic then we should take a closer look at some of the five million who have arrived here since 2012. We have made a specialty of importing anti-Semitism and continue to do so open-heartedly, looking on with benign indulgence, when this mindset is manifested by these people daubing obscenities on Jewish graves or stalking and attacking Jewish people or marching through London howling abuse about Jews. At least ol’ Kanye just sang a little song about it all and – as rap’s most lauded exponent among dim-witted white liberals – revealed the staggering lack of wit, talent and musicality in this godawful genre, with all its moronic, violent offshoots, its........

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