BEFORE the predictable array of contrarians make excuses for the self-entitled Islamic State concubine Shamima Begum, demanding to be allowed to return to a nation and values of plurality she disowned without regrets before or after, they should ask themselves how the thousands of Syrian, Iraqi and other refugees in Britain would feel about the return of exactly the sort they were forced to seek asylum from in fear of their lives in the first place – never mind the rest of us.

Begum has made her bed, she can damned well lie in it, and stay in the rubble of the homes destroyed by her late husband and his ilk's evil handiwork. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Mark Boyle,

15 Linn Park Gardens, Johnstone.