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Daniel Hamilton: After the Syria vote, liberal intervention is back – or should be. We need global engagement.

Wednesday’s events in the Commons have laid to rest the ghost of the Iraq War.

By Daniel Hamilton | 4 December 2015 | 9 comments

Nine consequences of yesterday’s Commons vote

The decision represented a decisive endorsement of a particular plan – not a return to Tony Blair-style liberal internationalism.

By Paul Goodman | 3 December 2015 | 114 comments

Garvan Walshe: Now protect Syrians from Assad

We must not send the message that if you kill 240,000 in Syria, you get away with it, but if you kill 140 in France then you’re in trouble.

By Garvan Walshe | 3 December 2015 | 10 comments

WATCH: Davis opposes air strikes on ISIS in Syria

“In the period in which the campaign has been operating, recruitment to Daesh has doubled.”

2 December 2015 | 29 comments

WATCH: Beckett – These are difficult decisions, but France calls and we must stand by our allies

The Labour former minister argues in favour of extending air strikes to Syria.

2 December 2015 | 16 comments

The full text of the Prime Minister’s speech in the Syria debate

Hansard’s account of the opening of today’s debate on extending military action against ISIS.

By Mark Wallace | 2 December 2015 | 13 comments

WATCH: Cameron: “The risks of inaction are far greater” than the risks of military action against ISIS

The Prime Minister makes his case in the House of Commons.

2 December 2015 | 32 comments

Bernard Jenkin: Why the Commons should vote for air strikes against ISIS today

We will not be “bombing Syria”, but attacking carefully identified terrorist targets in the worst example of an “ungoverned space” that the modern world has seen.

By Bernard Jenkin MP | 2 December 2015 | 42 comments

Almost four in five Party members back air strikes on ISIS in Syria in our monthly poll

Which represents no change in their view since the summer. But support for bombing among our readers as a whole is much lower.

By Paul Goodman | 1 December 2015 | 53 comments

Luke de Pulford: Moderate Muslims can’t and won’t defeat ISIS

We need to find advocates whose authority and Islamic orthodoxy the extremists respect. Such people exist, but they are not liberal Imams or nominally Christian politicians.

By Luke de Pulford | 29 November 2015 | 37 comments

Daniel Hannan MEP: Why we must back Turkey against Putin

The idea that Turkey is somehow backing ISIS has become a popular meme, assiduously spread online by Russian agents provocateurs, and taken up by some in Western Europe,

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 26 November 2015 | 55 comments

WATCH: Cameron pledges help for French air strikes against ISIS

“I firmly support the action that President Hollande has taken to strike ISIS in Syria and it is my firm conviction that Britain should do so too.”

23 November 2015 | 2 comments

How much worse would bombing Syria make the terror threat in Britain?

We cannot know. But however important that question is, it should not be the only one that MPs ask if they vote on bombing ISIS in Syria – or even the main one.

By Paul Goodman | 23 November 2015 | 82 comments

Two years on, a Syria vote that Cameron could win

It would be pusillanimous not to join France in Syria for fear of an ISIS attack here. But Tory backbenchers should go into any vote with their eyes wide open.

By Paul Goodman | 22 November 2015 | 113 comments

Philip Hammond: The chances of unifying Cyprus are stronger than ever

Yesterday I visited the island for the second time in four months, to offer the UK’s support.

By Philip Hammond MP | 20 November 2015 | 14 comments

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