Martin Amis’s Observer Review essay (10 Sept 06) on Islamicist terrorism and its roots in religious faith should be required reading for anyone interested in this key phenomenon of our age and its implications for all religious faith [More >>>]
The White House has published an up-to-date version of its National Strategy for Combating Terrorism document, containing some useful insights even though Europeans would express some of it differently [More >>>]
Peter Taylor’s article in the Guardian of 1 September 2006 draws wholly illegitimate conclusions from interviews with or about angry Muslims about the Iraq war being the ‘reason’ for terrorism in the UK, repeating the canard about Blair and co. denying any connection between them [More >>>]
In a recent Ephems entry I remarked, not for the first time, on the media’s repeated assertions that Tony Blair (in the words of a Guardian columnist, chosen at random) “famously [sic] insists that there...
A controversial and thought-provoking speech on the middle east and the west by an eminent Israeli scientist asks a number of uncomfortable questions and offers some unpalatable propositions [More >>>]
An old friend, an inexplicably obsessive cricket fanatic, has just telephoned in a state of high excitement about the collapse today of the fourth Test match between England and Pakistan. My first thought was...
The foiling of the UK terrorists’ plot to bomb aeroplanes in mid-air between Britain and the US (still cautiously referred to in the Guardian and elsewhere as the “alleged” plot) has prompted the emergence...
Oliver Kamm’s article (Guardian 18 Aug 06) makes the right points on Lebanon, however controversially. First post in Windows Live Writer [More >>>]
Whether Israel or Hezbollah has been victorious in the last few weeks’ conflict will depend on how much of UN Security Council resolution 1701 is eventually implemented. Either way, Lebanon is the loser [More >>>]