Terrorism
We should politicize the Berlin Pride attack
Of all the platitudes trotted out after an Islamist attack, the maddest has to be: “Don’t politicize this tragedy.” The…
The problem with the Widdecombe suspect’s ‘fair trial’
It’s hard to hold anyone responsible for anything today in British politics. That’s because no sooner have the facts emerged…
Terrorists with a taste for luxury: the flamboyance of the Baader-Meinhof gang
As Astrid Proll admits, the violent anti-capitalists had a weakness for expensive clothes and flashy cars - for which some of them paid the ultimate price
Is Sebastian Gorka brave enough to face Tucker Carlson?
Strange things are happening with Dr. Sebastian Gorka. In a clip that circulated widely yesterday, the deputy assistant to the…
Britain is facing an Islamist insurgency
The recent horrific attack in Golders Green has generated much anger and despair at this latest in a series of…
Prevent’s purpose is drifting from terrorism
When I was a Prevent counter terror officer a decade ago our case load was largely focused on Islamist terrorism…
How the terrorists of the 1970s held the world to ransom
It is remarkable how few people it took – only around 100 – to cause carnage over four different continents, says Jason Burke
Netflix’s Hostage is an act of cultural aggression
Apart from hunting, one of the very few consolations of the end of summer is that telly stops being quite…
Mossad’s secret allies in Operation Wrath of God
Aviva Guttmann reveals how the intelligence-sharing network the Club de Berne aided Israel in avenging the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre
Assassinations have an awkward tendency to backfire
A prime example – the murder of the SS officer Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 – may have been a technical success for SOE, but brutal reprisals made it an operational disaster
The unspoken truth about 7/7
Did you take part in any of the mysterious commemorations last weekend? The newspapers were full of it – something…
My plan for Prevent
In the autumn of 1940, British cities were being bombed every night by large aeroplanes whose provenance was apparently of…
How to bring down Britain’s power grid
At the end of last month, a fire at an electrical substation in Maida Vale caused chaos in west London.…
The law that is choking civil society
If one were to ask for a quintessential display of the British character it would be hard to better the…
Why were the Abedis here in the first place?
In recent days parliament has been recalled on a Saturday to debate the renationalisation of the British steel industry. Then,…
The West must not look away from what’s happening in Syria
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has many talents. But his understanding of Middle Eastern politics leaves much to…
How Cold War Czechoslovakia became a haven for terrorists
Simply to oppose and aggravate the West, the country supported a range of radical Palestinian organisations – but their violence and unpredictability became serious liabilities
If you have two hours to spare, spend it anywhere but here: The Years reviewed
The Years is a monologue spoken by a handful of actresses, some young, some old enough to carry bus passes.…
The truth about Southport
When I first saw the headline I was highly optimistic. Sir Keir Starmer had identified the threat to society posed…
Why won’t Keir Starmer use the word ‘terrorist’?
Why does Keir Starmer find it so hard to use the word ‘terrorist’ when talking about a man who buys…
Isis will not die
The Isis caliphate in Syria and Iraq was defeated at a cost of billions of dollars and the loss of…
Europe’s blind spot over anti-Semitism
You would think that we Europeans might have learned a thing or two about anti-Semitism over the past century or…
Does being right-wing make you violent?
I notice that the police are not treating the killings of those children in Southport as a terrorist attack. While…
Reliving the terror of the Bataclan massacre
Emmanuel Carrère knows when to let the horrors speak for themselves in his moving, hard-hitting account of the trial of the perpetrators
The futility of Martyn’s Law
There have been few acts of terrorist violence on British soil as grotesque as the Manchester Arena bombing in May…
