Terrorism
A family uprooted
Avi Shlaim claims to have uncovered undeniable proof that Zionist agents were responsible for targeting the Jewish community, forcing them to flee Iraq and settle in Israel
Risk aversion and the failure of our emergency services
The litany of errors in the emergency services’ response to the Manchester Arena attack has been widely detailed this week,…
Isis is wreaking havoc in Afghanistan
The bomb tore through an examination hall in Kabul on Friday, where students – mostly minority Hazara, mostly young women…
Prevent and the problem of ‘political correctness’
Britain is reviewing its cornerstone anti-terror programme. As the name implies, Prevent is a strategy designed to stop radicalisation before…
Is Israel facing a new Intifada?
Dizengoff Street is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Tel Aviv, a strip of bars, restaurants and Bauhaus architecture that…
Will Macron surrender to the mob?
It has been a torrid few days in France. In the early hours of Saturday morning, a former Argentine rugby…
Liverpool explosion: what we know so far
Britain has been subjected to another suspected terror attack, just as the nation fell silent for the annual Remembrance Sunday…
Cult hit
The enduring power of Japan’s doomsday groups
Radical error
Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism
The Bataclan trial is forcing France to confront some difficult questions
It’s a stroke of good fortune for France that Salah Abdeslam is a coward. Had he not been he would…
Everyday matters
Many would say the commute was one thing they didn’t miss in lockdown. But when Lauren Elkin was ‘yanked out…
The West’s Islamist capitulation
On Monday, Tony Blair addressed a military think tank in London and stated that the West should continue to intervene…
The Taliban’s win will unleash the next wave of global jihad
The Taliban retaking Kabul has been inevitable for almost the entirety of the 20 year war, and certainly since Barack…
The case for isolating terrorists in prison is stronger than ever
Watching last night’s ITV report from inside two of Britain’s highest security jails was an odd experience for me. The…
What a performance
To its huge credit, ITV has managed to find perhaps the last two television celebrities who’ve never before been filmed…
Why we don’t say it
The official review into the Manchester Arena bombing was published this week. Four years after 22 mainly young people were…
The catalogue of failures that allowed Usman Khan to kill
The inquest into the murder of Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt by Islamist terrorist Usman Khan has revealed a collision…
Extreme measures
Britain must investigate its Islamist ‘dawa’ networks
The Spectator’s Notes
There should be more ‘religious literacy’. So says the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Religion in the Media, chaired by Yasmin…
Is France losing its war on terror?
A political storm has swept France in recent days. It follows the publication of an open letter by twenty retired…
The worst of times
Not long ago, a group of psychologists analysing data about national happiness discovered that the British were at their unhappiest…
Isis’s weakness is now its strength
As coronavirus swept the globe a year ago, Isis began issuing pronouncements. ‘God, by his will, sent a punishment to…
The case for a domestic abuse register
In the 12 months since the first lockdown, at least 112 women in the UK have been killed by men.…
It’s time to take Britain’s Incel terror threat seriously
Far-right and Islamist extremism are both cause for concern in Britain today. But there’s another threat which all too often…
The difficulty of cracking down on ‘hate’
In general, my experience as a British Sikh has been overwhelmingly positive in my life. Most people who know anything…
