security Articles

All of the lessons of the Chilcot report need to be studied in detail before any hard conclusions can be reached about the role of intelligence in our political system. To rush to hard conclusions about the importance of intelligence to our national security...

The savage attacks by Islamic State in Brussels last month underscore the importance of nations standing together in the face of such barbarism. Isis offers an extreme form of Islam which attacks our fundamental belief in an open society, and is an affront to the...

Until we win the war of ideas, the policies will fail Labour’s recent travails over the fiscal charter were a ‘Groundhog Day’ moment. Back in July we fell right into George Osborne’s traps around the welfare bill; fast-forward three months and there we were again,...

The United Kingdom Independence party has in today’s Telegraph set out its manifesto, including the promise to ‘reverse the opt-in to the European arrest warrant, because Britain believes in "innocent until proven guilty”’.  This is an example of a completely outdated...