Oborne and the Trojan Horse affair
A previous column about the right wing journalist Peter Oborne ( Solidarity 661 ) described how this one-time “conventional conservative” had been transformed by the Iraq war into someone feted by sections of the left. I described his politics as “right wing isolationism”. That column described Oborne’s largely uncritical admiration for Islam and Islamic regimes, including some ultra-reactionary Islamists. I will now go on to examine Oborne’s long-standing interest in the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair — an alleged plot or campaign by some conservative Muslims to take over Birmingham secular...