Radicalisation

A ponderous parable for our times: The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana

6 June 2020 9:00 am

Twins are literary dynamite. For writers, they’re perfect for thrashing out notions of free will, the pinballing of cause and…

How Brighton’s gangs became increasingly radicalised

25 April 2020 9:00 am

Between October 2013 and January 2014, five teenaged boys from Brighton, three of them brothers from a family called Deghayes,…

Miriam Gross’s Diary: the problem with Steve Jobs

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Disappointingly, the recent film about Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, does not include the thing about him which most struck…

Isis takes its British schoolgirl jihadis seriously. Why don’t we?

10 October 2015 9:00 am

When the first schoolgirls ran away to Isis I had some sympathy for them — at least, I could see…

I can understand those seduced by Isis; once, it could have been me

25 July 2015 9:00 am

One of the great moments of my student life was opening the door and seeing visitors step back, shocked. I’d…

Christina Lamb’s diary: Meeting the mother of the Sousse killer

11 July 2015 9:00 am

One strange consequence of my job as a foreign correspondent is discovering beautiful places when terrible things happen in them.…

Whose fault is the jihadi bride? Certainly not her astonishing dad

11 April 2015 9:00 am

Like you, I suspect, I have been terribly worried these last few weeks over the plight of 15-year-old Amira Abase.…

My plan for Question Time: mug up and fail anyway

7 March 2015 9:00 am

I was invited on Question Time this week, which gave me a few sleepless nights. Natalie Bennett’s disastrous interview on…

My boy the radical Muslim

4 October 2014 9:00 am

Reckoning with my stepson’s turn to radical Islam