Walled in against the modern world
IN 2010, BETWEEN leaving politics and resuming journalism, I wrote two chapters of a novel. It emerged from my experience of representing in parliament what was then the highest number of Muslims in any Conservative-held seat, Wycombe.
It imagined a future in which Britain had been riven by plague. Islamist extremists had carved out enclaves in cities governed by ISIS-style sharia. Most of the countryside was ruled by white crime gangs, which were ethnically cleansing any land they seized.
