Serious terrorists won’t use WhatsApp, they will make their own encrypted networks. Here’s how to combat them and preserve our liberties.
While the rest of the world is competing to attract the world’s brightest brains, it would seem that May wants us to deport the hardy souls we’re unable to deter.
They will turn left at the next election – just in time.
Across Europe, the cheap soundbites and costly incompetence of populism are calling – only sober practicality can win the day.
96 years after World War I and 25 since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the time has come for Germany to increase defence spending.
Rumours of our decline are greatly exaggerated. Britain can make a difference to the world. Here’s how.
British navel-gazing over the 2003 war costs Kurdish lives today.
Free elections in Hong Kong would be impossible to conceal from the Chinese population
The freedoms gained are only those you would never want to use.
The ghost of the cunning Florentine urges Cameron, Merkel and Hollande to show some balls.
Getting YouTube to take down some terrorist videos is not an adequate response to a generational threat.
Right now the aims of our policy are necessarily limited: arm Kurdistan, secure Jordan, prevent the relatively moderate rebels in Syria from being entirely overrun.
To claim that Israel can to claim that it can through its own actions end this war is to abdicate the responsibility to deal with the world as we find it.
If Labour win in 2015, this could be the sort of Prime Minister’s Questions session we get.
But since this particular strain is expressed using the symbols of Islamic culture and Muslims’ identity, resisting it needs politics of exceptional subtlety.