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In this week's episode, we will be discussing the terrorist attacks in Brussels.

We will also be looking at whether David Cameron can do anything about the fractures within his party.

And finally, we will be debating whether Brexit is a feminist issue.

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This week, Brussels became the latest European capital to be attacked by ISIS. Two bombs

exploded at the airport and one bomb exploded on the metro. 31 people were killed and many more

injured. In the wake of a terrorist attack, everything barely worth saying will be said endlessly.

And the only things that are worth saying won't be said, said Douglas Murray, writing for the

spectator yesterday. I'm joined now by Douglas and Harass Rafique, managing director for the Quillium

Foundation, to discuss what kind of response we can expect to see in the wake of these latest

attacks.

So Douglas Murray, you've described in a blog for the Spectator website this week,

the predictable response to terror events. What is that?

It goes in several stages. During the first one, lots of people were murdered in cold blood for being on a train or standing at an airport terminal. There's a

brief moment of surprise before you go to the second stage, which is people trying to work out

a lacrimose response to it that's totally meaningless. For instance, expressing solidarity or

praying for the place or calling for other people to pray for place.

All perfectly good things to do themselves, but now a demonstration of that awful thing, virtue signaling.

Governments then come out and condemn it, usually without identifying why it happened.

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