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Gary Kent Articles

Defeating Daesh

We cannot hide in the futile hope that Daesh will look elsewhere. Yet, many blame western policy rather than the autonomous agency of this fascism. Jeremy Corbyn argues that, 'It is the conflict in Syria and the consequences of the Iraq war which have created the...

Time for a straight-talking debate about Syria

Let's have a straight-talking and honest political debate about Syria, Iraq and the refugee crisis. Our accepting 4,000, 40,000 or 400,000 Syrian refugees would alleviate problems, massively for those who settle here, but make little difference to millions displaced...

‘A concentration camp above ground, a mass grave beneath’

Iraq remains a four-letter word in British politics that just keeps giving. Owen Jones' recent effusive encomium in the Guardian to Jeremy Corbyn and his pledge to apologise for what Jones calls 'the greatest western foreign policy catastrophe of our time' also lists...

We should back comrades in Iraq

Here we go again. At the first televised hustings, Jeremy Corbyn mounted his moral high horse and won much support for saying that the elephant in the room was Iraq. The invisible pachyderm usually refers to a subject that people keep schtum about. The truth is that...