Establishing democratic government in Eastern Europe was the great success of the Cold War. Poland’s new administration has set about destroying it.
“It’s time for a few home truths.”
Plus: Cameron blew it. So did Hammond. And: My friendship with Tony Benn.
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.
“In the period in which the campaign has been operating, recruitment to Daesh has doubled.”
The Labour former minister argues in favour of extending air strikes to Syria.
Hansard’s account of the opening of today’s debate on extending military action against ISIS.
The Prime Minister makes his case in the House of Commons.
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.
Which represents no change in their view since the summer. But support for bombing among our readers as a whole is much lower.
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.
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,
“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.”
Wednesday’s events in the Commons have laid to rest the ghost of the Iraq War.