9    ‘Bye bye, Willkommenskultur’, Die Zeit, 7 July 2016.

10    Poll carried out for the German broadcaster ARD.

THE FEELING THAT THE STORY HAS RUN OUT

1    Jurgen Habermas et al., An Awareness of what is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age, trans. Ciaran Cronin, Polity Press, 2010, p. 15.

2    E.W. Böckenförde, ‘Die Entstehung des Staates als Vorgang der Sakularisation’ (1967), in Recht, Staat, Freiheit, Frankfurt am Main, 1991, p. 112.

3    Eric Kaufmann, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, Profile Books, 2010, p. 182.

4    Morten Storm with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister, Agent Storm: My Life inside al-Qaeda, Viking, 2014, pp. 117–19.

5    Benedetto Croce, ‘Why we cannot help calling ourselves Christians’, in My Philosophy, George Allen & Unwin, 1949; Marcello Pera, Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians, Encounter Books, 2011.

6    See Dietmar Eger, Gerhard Richter, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. I, 1962–1968, Hatje Cantz, 2011: Onkel Rudi, p. 208; Herr Heyde, p. 233; Familie Liechti, p. 249.

7    See Richard Davey, Kathleen Soriano and Christian Weikop, Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy, 2014: ‘Interior’, p. 144; ‘Ages of the World’, pp. 172–3.

THE END

1    ‘Tödliche Schüsse in Berliner Flüchtlingsheim’, Die Welt, 29 September 2016.

2    ‘European Jews are too afraid to go to synagogue on religious holidays due to fears of anti-Semitic attacks’, The Daily Mail, 20 September 2016.

3    ‘Merkel admits she would turn back the clock on refugee policy’, The Financial Times, 19 September 2016.

4    ‘Trump wants border wall, but Britain is building one in France’, NBC News, 12 September 2016.

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

1    Paul Collier, Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century, Allen Lane, 2013; David Goodhart, The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Migration, Atlantic Books, 2013.

2    Erico Matias Tavares, ‘Sweden on the brink? – An Interview with Dr. Tino Sanandaji’, 21 February 2016, at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sweden-brink-interview-dr-tino-sanandaji-erico-matias-tavares.

3    See, in particular, Joseph Ratzinger and Marcello Pera, Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity and Islam, Basic Books, 2006; Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger, The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion, Ignatius Press, 2006.

WHAT WILL BE

1    Daniel Korski, ‘Why we lost the Brexit vote’, Politico, 20 October 2016.

2    Le Monde, 31 January 2016.

3    ‘It’s bad in Eritrea, but not that bad’, The New York Times, 23 June 2016.

4    ‘Multicultural Britain rejecting foreign conflict, MoD admits’, The Guardian, 23 January 2014.

5    YouGov poll for Population Matters, May 2014.

6    ‘Umfrage zeigt: Das denken die Deutschen wirklich über den Islam’, Focus, 5 May 2016.

7    ‘What do Europeans think about Muslim immigration?’, Chatham House, 7 February 2017.

8    The video is available on YouTube under the title ‘Erstaufnahme Asyl RP Lübke Kassel Lohfelden 14.10.2015’.

9    ‘Die Wutbürger sollten Deutschland verlassen’, Der Freitag, 12 October 2016.

Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Robin Baird-Smith and Jamie Birkett at Bloomsbury. Also my agent Matthew Hamilton at Aitken Alexander Associates. This book was commissioned under Matthew’s predecessor, Gillon Aitken and was one of the last book deals he did. As well as being a legendary agent, Gillon was a wonderful and wise friend who is very much missed.