Emily Maitlis should take off that hijab

Too many Western feminists are blasé about the oppression that the headscarf represents.

Emily Maitlis , co-host of The News Agents and former Newsnight presenter, has joined in this peculiarly icky form of culturally appropriating culturally-privileged and wildly out-of-touch worldview.

The burqa is a garment that brave women, unlucky enough to be born under Islamic regimes, have sacrificed their lives to be free of.

Maitlis ’s breathless account of her Saudi mini-break made me laugh, but in a manner best described as hollow’. While rich Western women cover up for kicks, brave Muslim -born women die for the right to remove their prison garments.