If we act at all it must be within a rigorous assessment our interests and our capabilities.
Plus: The girls who went to Syria shouldn’t be prosecuted. Gorgeous Umanna. Kensington selects. LibDems wriggle. And: will UKIP win more than five seats?
The Foreign Secretary on defence spending, Russia and ISIS.
A proposal from the ConservativeHome manifesto.
Fox calls on the Government to arm Ukraine. What does Cameron think?
ISIS, Putin, the prospect of an end to antibiotics…are we really prepared for how tough the coming decades might be?
The two battered main parties would do well to speak honestly about the challenges and costs we face.
We should decide what acts really really deserve our outrage.
Saudi Arabia’s key vulnerability is an ideological environment deliberately created by the Saudi state.
But since this particular strain is expressed using the symbols of Islamic culture and Muslims’ identity, resisting it needs politics of exceptional subtlety.
Media that decide not to reproduce the magazine’s cartoons of Mohammed shouldn’t be criticised.
That’s certainly what we saw last year – and not just because of ISIS.
Reading the Counter-Terrorism Bill led me to reflect on why my reaction to it is so different from those other Muslims whom I encounter complaining about it.
It remains a real threat to both our interests and our allies throughout the Middle East.
These brutal and barbaric organisations are poised to assume de facto control of the country, just a few hundred miles across the Mediterranean from the EU.