Here we go again. Ding ding ding; it’s time to furiously debate what we Muslim women wear. On this occasion it’s the turn of the French women’s rights minister - who seems really upset about the fact that Muslim women want to go swimming. Modestly.

Marks and Spencer has recently started selling burkinis to women in the UK, something the retailer had already been doing abroad with success. And now Laurence Rossignol has declared that when women choose for themselves how to dress, they are in fact capitulating to ‘social control’. And brands that offer such garments are promoting women’s bodies ‘being locked up’. She fails to notice the irony of taking away choices from women and enforcing her own vision of how a woman should dress.