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I can't speak for his motives but given that France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Denmark have banned them a debate is inevitable. As much as we dislike Johnson a lot of people don't, so his writing a piece saying a ban is a bad idea isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think the problem is comparing Muslim women to postboxes/bank robbers...
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The only thing 'thoughtful' about Johnson's piece was the thought that went into identifying a way to position himself as the lead Bannonite figure in the UK and assess which racist insults he thought he could get away with i.e. just how loud he could dog-whistle. Spreading race-hate under the guise of 'starting a debate', particularly one that never needed to be started, is a fairly typical level of snidey odium from him.