Islamism
Taleban
Toxic virus or Taleban: it’s funny how the mild-mannered Liz Kendall has attracted for her Blairite associations the most violently…
A twinge of fear, and a glimpse of a harsher world
I celebrated Eid in a sandy bay in Sri Lanka, watching from the warm, shallow sea as gaggles of local…
Teenage terrors
One of the great moments of my student life was opening the door and seeing visitors step back, shocked. I’d…
Diary
One strange consequence of my job as a foreign correspondent is discovering beautiful places when terrible things happen in them.…
The Spectator’s notes
‘The Greek people,’ the Financial Times leading article said on Monday, ‘would be well advised to listen closely to the…
You can’t take the Islam out of Islamic State
At last, British politicians have been galvanised into action by the appalling events last weekend in the Tunisian resort of…
Don’t abandon Tunisia!
It needs – and deserves – British visitors more than ever
The bankers’ darling
This week’s Imagine… Jeff Koons: Diary of a Seducer (BBC1, Tuesday) began with Koons telling a slightly puzzled-looking Alan Yentob…
Original sin makes us better people. I wish Muslims believed in it
These days, on the subject of Islam, non-Muslims have mostly divided into two camps — though there’s a little wandering…
A lone Crusader declares holy war
In 2011, Anders Breivik murdered 69 teenagers in a socialist summer camp outside the Norwegian capital of Oslo, and eight…
Why do bright schoolgirls run away to Syria?
How could they? How could girls brought up in the wealthy West abandon their families and their own bright futures…
It’s not Netanyahu’s fault that Jews in Europe are afraid
Have you seen the prices for houses in Israel? Astronomical, mate. You wouldn’t believe it. An arid and perpetually embattled…
‘We’ll get out of this alive’
An interview with Helle Brix, who was at the meeting in Copenhagen on Saturday when the shooting happened
Dresden notebook
Sachsenschweine — Saxon pigs — said the graffiti as my train moved out of Berlin on its way to Dresden.…
Gay right
Marine Le Pen’s unlikely rainbow coalition
Let there be light
It’s time to reclaim Islam from the Islamists
The dangerous lie
Despite what our leaders tell us, Islamic extremism is all about Islam
An attack on freedom
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo lambasts, attacks and lampoons absolutely everybody. Its targets include all religions, all identity groups,…
The hate that dare not speak its name
For some left-wing men, the misogyny of the Islamic State is part of the appeal
The White Widow myth
Samantha Lewthwaite almost certainly isn’t as monstrous as the papers say. And she definitely isn’t as important
Conversion experience
Reckoning with my stepson’s turn to radical Islam
Whose side are they on?
Qatari money has flooded into London – but also into much less savoury places
A sense of injustice
Sister Christine Frost, who works on an east London estate, sees why young Muslim men are going to fight in Iraq and Syria
The British beheaders
Why we lead the West in exporting jihad
Under fire in Israel
The anti-Semitic West almost seems to want Israelis to suffer
