jihadis
What a performance
To its huge credit, ITV has managed to find perhaps the last two television celebrities who’ve never before been filmed…
Lessons in terror
Sweden is now properly celebrated as the Land that Called Coronavirus Correctly. But in the distant past, those with long…
My trip to Pakistan’s ‘Jihadi Disneyland’
Not so long ago, Barack Obama called Waziristan ‘the most dangerous place in the world’. It was the losing front…
Blame the grown-ups for the safe-space tribe
A car driver ploughs into a bunch of people outside the Natural History Museum in London and lefties are furious…
Everything in black and white
This is a quite remarkable book. Badly written, devoid of anything even vaguely approaching a methodology, patronising, hideously mistaken on…
Aleppo Notebook
I had been trying to get to Aleppo for ages, but was unable to do so because rebel activity had…
Pry another day
Were David Cameron in any way adept at spin, it would be tempting to think that the publication of the…
Why I left
I cannot be part of a movement run by half-educated fanatics
Shifting sands in Saudi
Why America’s once-cautious ally suddenly looks so skittish
Isis rising
In recent months, as the country went through a general election, our focus has been on our own domestic debates.…
Can brutalised jihadis be saved?
Could you ever torture someone? Could you, under different circumstances, in a different world (I hope) than the one which…
The wolf in all of us
I had an interesting discussion with my friend Aidan Hartley earlier this week about whether the young men fighting for…
Terror’s comeback kids
Jihadi groups like ISIS rarely manage to hold their ground – but that doesn’t mean they’re going away
You shouldn’t lose your children for disagreeing with Boris Johnson
Do your children have a bleak and nihilistic view of the world? It’s hard to tell, really, when they spend…
