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Hello, I'm Sam Holmes and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Every week, a few of our favourite writers read their pieces from the latest issue.

This week, we'll hear Douglas Murray on how the Prevent Scheme has lost sight of its founding intention.

Owen Matthews on Rome's Rubbish.

And finally, Lionel Shriver gives her review of Dave Chappelle's new transgressive Netflix special. First up, Douglas Murray. More than any

other country in the West, Britain has become practiced in the arts of self-deception and subject avoidance.

If a politician in France had been butchered by a Muslim of Somali descent,

the French media and political class would have gone through a cycle of debate

about the ideology that propelled the killer.

Government and security sources would have talked about

the networks surrounding the suspect, and the whole society would have learned a little more

about what might have led to such an outrage. In Britain, the situation is otherwise.

David Amos was stabbed to death in a church while holding a surgery for his constituents.

The man apprehended for his killing is a 25-year-old of Somali descent named Ali Harbi Ali.

In the days since then, we have learned that the suspect had been referred to the government's prevent program seven years ago, while still a sick former at Riddlesdown Collegiate School in Purley.

Yet, the political classes have once again shown themselves incapable of even being able to speak about the most likely source of the problem.

From the immediate aftermath of the murder, politicians talked of the killing almost as though Sir David had died of natural causes.

Sadiq Khan, among other senior politicians, tweeted his sorrow that Sir David had passed away.

When the Commons met on Monday to commemorate Sir David, it was once again as though a colleague had merely died uncommonly suddenly

and unnaturally early. Compare this with the aftermath of the killing of Joe Cox in 2016,

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