Tag Archives: terrorism
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Usman Khan – issues like rehabilitation and the human rights of terrorists can only be solved with cross-party consensus
Leave a commentDecember 3, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
The story of how Usman Khan came to be released onto the streets and arriving at a conference on prisoner …
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Finsbury Park: Terrorism, pure and simple
2June 20, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
It was a terrorist incident at Finsbury Park mosque. Put aside some news organisations’ insistence in calling it a ‘white …
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London Bridge provides us with so many questions to which we have so few answers
3June 5, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Yesterday morning my two kids (aged seven and nine) were building things with Jenga blocks. We had just watched the …
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Jeremy Corbyn on foreign policy: why you should read it before commenting
1May 29, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
I am prepared to bet good money that many of the people who responded negatively to Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy …
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Time to reconsider what Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘support for the IRA’ means?
Leave a commentMay 27, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
The sudden focus on what Jeremy Corbyn has said and done regarding the issue of Ireland is unsurprising. It has …
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Manchester – we must maintain the ‘greyzone’, because the alternative is unthinkable
1May 24, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
I won’t be talking about the election campaign this morning. But I will be talking about politics. At times like …
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Would military action mean the UK would be subject to more terrorist attacks?
4November 27, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
The West would be the subject of terrorist attacks from ISIS whether or not they get involved in Syria. So …
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Why Paris shows that ISIS are losing and we who maintain the ‘greyzone’ are winning
18November 14, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
At first I had nothing. Nothing at all. The second mass murder of civilians in a year in the same …
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Government response to Jihadi John another example of how ‘hard cases make bad law’
Leave a commentMarch 3, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Often, we are faced with an extreme situation that leads to the cry that “something must be done.” Governments, or …
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“The Interview” – giving into terrorism leads to more terrorism
Leave a commentDecember 24, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
Let’s not pretend for a moment that Sony’s decision to pull “The Interview” out of all cinemas in the world, …
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Torture should be investigated, but within context
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
There have been some very interesting articles through the last week on the moral judgement of the use of torture. …
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The beheading of Alan Henning…a sign of fear or a piece of kamikaze?
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
Alan Henning was watching TV one day and saw a piece on the news about Syrian children who had been …
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UK votes to join airstrikes in Iraq – but at what cost?
Leave a commentSeptember 28, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
So the vote on whether to join in the air strikes on Islamic State (ISIL) was carried out on Friday …
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There is no solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict if we don’t negotiate with Hamas
1July 22, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
I feel that whenever I write about Israel I need to declare an interest. I am Jewish, I am the …
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