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Britain's Supreme Court gets something very right

Britain's Supreme Court gets something very right

Citizenship involves not just rights but also duties

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Melanie Phillips
Mar 02, 2021
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Shamima Begum

More than a few jaws dropped when Britain’s Supreme Court ruled a few days ago that the “Isis bride” Shamima Begum should not be allowed to return to Britain to fight the government’s decision to strip her of her British citizenship.

In 2015, when Begum was 15 years old, she and two other east London schoolgirls left Britain to join Islamic …

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