terrorism Articles

For everyone in the European parliament, 22 March was an agonising day. On that day, on rightwing blogs I read some extraordinary responses to the Brussels attacks. One hinted we were going to hear all the same responses that we heard after previous atrocities. But to...

Dear Ken, I was there at Edgware Road on July 7 2005 when Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated a bomb killing Laura Webb, Colin Morley, Jennifer Nicholson, David Foulkes, Jonathan Downey and Michael Brewster, and maiming many others. The scenes at Edgware Road were beyond...

Friday 13 November 2015 will be forever remembered as the day when everything changed. Like 11 September 2001, when so many died in the name of a fanaticism forged in the fires of hatred and contempt, the massacre in Paris shocked the world into realising afresh that...

There are so many things that can be said following the shocking events in Paris. Many of those things were already been said following the Charlie Hebdo massacre or indeed after the 2005 London bombings or the Atocha outrage in Madrid. The fact is Paris carries with...