I watched the Boarding School Bomber programme on BBC3 last week. I found it very powerful and moving. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017nghc/The_Boarding_School_Bomber/ It raises a number of questions about the way Al-Quaeda targets the young and vulnerable and also the difficult issue of how a friend or a community reacts when they see someone close to them getting into…
The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill received its second reading on 5th October in a debate that lasted five hours. The Bill introduces a new version of control orders with broad judicial oversight. It is intended that they will be used in relation to suspects who for various reasons cannot be prosecuted or deported.…
I watched some of the moving ceremonies on TV yesterday. Ithink it is important that we remember the horror of that attack and it should remind us that terrorism has enormous force today because of the nature of our interdependent world and the sheer power of modern technology. Can we ever hope to live without the…
This is worth looking at if you are interested in attempts to combat extremism. http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/component/content/article/61-press-releases/841-before-a-after-the-norway-massacre-symbiosis-between-anti-muslim-extremists-and-islamist-extremists.html
The Government’s decision to drop the 42 days was right in view of the extensive opposition. I hope such legislation never becomes necessary but modern terrorism is an ever more serious problem. When the Government announced their decision not to proceed with 42 days a number of opposition members complained that the Home Secretary had suggested they…
