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James Denselow Articles

We need to talk about Syria

The prime minster made headlines over the weekend as he warned that Muslim communities in Britain were ‘quietly condoning’ the ideology of Islamic State. Cameron called for more ‘personal responsibility’ to address the continued threat of British civilians travelling...

Beyond the dented shield

In contrast to the national results the London borough of Brent has gone further to Labour with two incumbents, Tulip Siddiq and Barry Gardiner, increasing their seats’ majorities and Dawn Butler gaining a massive victory in Brent Central all this following Labour...

From the ballot box to Bangladesh: making development political

Speaking at a ONE event in January, Ed Miliband reminded his audience (of less sceptical youngsters) that ‘change is possible’, and how, 15 years after the millennium development goals were set out, ‘58m more children go to primary school’. Miliband recognised that...

Countering Islamic State propaganda

The rise and rise of Islamic State has partly been a phenomenon of how it communicate. Its global networked use of new and traditional media has raised its profile from being unheard of to being a byword for terror in a matter of months. Whilst focus understandably...