What he detests is less liberalism than democracy, and the obstacle it poses to Russian foreign policy objectives.
We are citizens of one of the safest countries in the world, and a genuine intelligence and security superpower.
The APPG’s formula could over time cripple the UK’s successful counter-terrorism strategy and counter-terrorism operations.
Onward puts the importance placed on the environment amongst under 35s in roughly the same category as housing and education.
Amidst verbal and actual violence, it is tempting to seek to shut down, say, Farage or Lammy altogether. But politics without anger would be impossible – and undesirable.
His sacking is more evidence, were it needed, of the tensions that tear at the Tory coalition – and threaten to render it unsustainable.
The attack is a salutary reminder that all terrorists, by definition, believed in something and have a cause.
The Home Secretary is afloat on a sargasso sea of returning jihadis, human rights laws, bewildering intelligence, gaps in the law – and a shrieking media.
She could give us invaluable insights into jihadi recruitment techniques, and if deradicalised become a valuable asset.
One thinks of the need for such as a measure as justice-related and security-related. But it would also send a powerful signal.
“It’s also important that we treat them fairly…with justice tempered with a bit of mercy.”
A key moral from the case of Shamima Begum is that we need better information both to protect and prosecute.
Government dialogue with an organisation doesn’t mean Ministers rewarding it. Rather, it means engaging with it.
The second in a mini-series of three pieces on this site about anti-Muslim prejudice – and what the Government and Party should do about it.