A pleasure to discuss @burke_jason's latest book, The Revolutionists - a compelling study of terrorism and extremism in the 1970s - at a @CEGroupUK event last night.

Some thoughts on the UK’s permissive environment for antisemitism on @BBCNewsnight last night.

You can catch my recent interview with @bbclaurak here. We discuss antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and more. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m…

I talk to Dr Whittaker about some of the report’s findings here. youtube.com/watch?v=RRdzFTjy…

Thank you to Munira Mirza @civic_future and @michaelgove @luhc for their remarks at today’s @CommissionCE conference: ‘Tackling Extremism in our Communities’.

I wrote on the Shamima Begum case for @lawfareblog back in 2019. Whether or not you agree with the Supreme Court verdict - this is a hellishly difficult area for democracies to try and navigate. lawfareblog.com/limits-briti…

More Macron criticism. You can just imagine what the response would have been if he had gone down the route of “acknowledging the exclusively religious” motivations behind recent terror attacks, as recommended here. Not universal praise would be my guess. nytimes.com/2020/11/06/world…

In this common struggle against faith-claimed terrorism perpetrated by terrorists abusing religious motivations, we will endure

Ah, for the good old days when a US President promoting zany conspiracy theories would be considered major news.

“The question was repeated through the crowd. ‘Are we safe? Is this war?’” A question we’re still wrestling with 19 years on.

“A staff sergeant of the US Marines said ‘this is just the worst feeling I’ve ever had...I want to nuke ‘em all. Whoever they are. Nuke ‘em. Nuke ‘em.’”

Bin Laden: “Wealthy businessman who controls thousands of Arab militants”.

Blair called the attack the “new evil in our world”. Which was only partially right. It was certainly evil but neither the ideology nor the group behind it were. It was the culmination of a steady increase in the AQ threat.

I still have a ragged copy of the Telegraph from 12th September. This remains such a powerful front page.

This was supported by earlier reporting in the New York Times, which flagged up the AQI link back in December 2007. nytimes.com/2007/12/14/world…

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That’s weird because I distinctly remember being told by the CT smart set that a military response to the declaration of the caliphate was “exactly what the jihadists wanted” and was “playing into their hands”.

Enjoyed this from @Andrew_Zammit article in this month’s @CTCWP. Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.

To jump in (uninvited) on this. I was quite struck by this paragraph in a recent UNSC report. It’s only a summary, of course, but even so over-simplified in a generally unhelpful way.

There are of course alternatives to this quandary that don’t involve murderous terrorist rampages. google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.franc…