How many more times will the Eiffel Tower have to go dark?
I sometimes wonder whether news like this from last week… and news like this from this week… … will ever…
The ‘community leaders’ doing nothing to solve the grooming scandal
There are some foreign words so expressive that you long to absorb them into your own language, to add breadth,…
The reality of Europe’s migrant crisis
So here’s an interesting thing. Footage so striking that even the BBC has run with it. This is the film…
Kevin Myers’ eager critics should feel ashamed of themselves
I have been out of the country for a little while, doing my bit to support the Greek economy. I…
Richard Dawkins is dragged into America’s tedious free-speech war
Anyone who has followed the free-speech wars in America over recent years will know that by now, basically, nobody can…
George Soros vs the nation state
Freedom House is a remarkable and largely admirable organisation. Over the years it has done some great work challenging governments…
Where is the angry backlash against the far-left’s G20 protests?
Imagine if some far right militia had just taken to the streets of Germany. Imagine that the militia covered their…
From Italy to Sweden, Europe is dying
In what I promise won’t become a regular feature, I thought it worth issuing an update under the heading ‘I…
The public vs the politicians
These are difficult times across Europe. From the endless iterations of the eurozone crisis to the Brexit negotiations beginning in…
The ‘hate preacher’ hypocrisy
Well this is interesting. I had got used to the standard response to terror. I had thought that when 22…
Finsbury Park attack: We need a consistent response to terror
So it seems that it has happened again. A third terrorist attack in as many months on London’s streets. Once…
When did British voters start rewarding anti-Semitism?
One of the interesting things about ‘diversity’ is that it allows almost anything to happen. Consider Naz Shah, the MP…
The great Sunni-Shia conflict is getting ever closer to the surface
Several people have been killed in a terrorist attack in Iran today, with Isis claiming responsibility. This has potentially huge…
Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism
Last night seven people were killed and at least 48 injured in terror attacks in London Bridge and Borough. This is the…
Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism
Last Sunday, I appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics to discuss the aftermath of the Manchester attack. I said what…
Does Andy Burnham regret his opposition to the ‘Prevent’ strategy?
Perhaps we’re now past the moment of shock. Certainly we’ve moved fairly swiftly past the other stages of post-massacre grief.…
Islamists are very clear about what they want – we just aren’t listening
The meeting place of the two worlds could not have been more sharply defined. In Manchester Arena, thousands of young…
The British broadcaster brave enough to discuss Islamic violence
Last night Channel 4 broadcast a deep and seriously important programme. ‘Isis: The Origins of Violence’ was written and presented…
Private Manning’s freedom comes at the expense of US security
Barack Obama’s decision to commute the prison sentence of Private Manning was a final, disgraceful undermining of American interests by…
Terrorism teaches a lesson that some still refuse to learn
Another knife-attack was thwarted yesterday in Westminster. Overnight there were anti-terror raids in Kent and London. These were unconnected, but police…
What does the UN think Saudi Arabia can teach us about gender equality?
In these tricky – not to say dark – times there is one place to which we can always turn…
Turkish democracy has just died; Europe could not have saved it
Well farewell then Turkey. Or at least, farewell the Turkey of Kemal Ataturk. It’s a shame. Ataturk-ism nearly made its…
The BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall was near-perfect
A politician once told me ‘You should try to remember to try to encourage us when we get things right…
Berlin, Westminster, now Stockholm. On and on it goes
So this time it is Stockholm. And I am tempted simply to write ‘copy’, ‘paste’ and ‘repeat’ with links to…
In defence of Ken Livingstone
Listen to Douglas Murray and James Forsyth debating Ken Livingstone’s non-expulsion: We never loved each other, Ken Livingstone and I.…
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