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10 July 2017
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Opinion Editorials
July 4, 2017
North Korea
We are sleepwalking towards a global war – and Russia and China are enabling it
By John Hemmings This is not “just another North Korean missile launch”. The “successful” testing of what North Korea’s state news agency KCNA called an “inter-continental ballistic missile” takes the Korean Peninsula one step closer to a conflict that could drag in the world’s great ...July 3, 2017
Tech companies must commit to tackling extremism
By Nikita Malik Better late than never. The announcement that four major technology platforms — Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft — will create a new Global Internet Forum to counter terrorism has been a long time coming. Until recently, the onus ...June 29, 2017
Ukraine’s Stalled Revolution
By Andrew Foxall and Lincoln Pigman More than three years have passed since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, in which protestors took to the streets and ousted their corrupt leader Viktor Yanukovych. But reform has been slow in coming. To be fair, President ...June 23, 2017
Taiwan
Panama Has Ditched Taiwan. Here’s Why It Matters for America.
Originally published in The National Interest, 22 June 2017 Last week’s sudden announcement by Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela that Panama would henceforth be shifting its diplomatic relations from Taiwan to mainland China was not entirely unexpected in Taipei. Tsai Ing-wen ...June 9, 2017
Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism
By Douglas Murray. This article originally appeared in The Daily Mail. Last Sunday, I appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics to discuss the aftermath of the Manchester attack. I said what I thought, and various Muslim groups promptly went bananas. This was not ...June 7, 2017
Hate speech spreads too easily in online spaces – here’s how social media can stop it
By Nikita Malik. This article originally appeared in The Telegraph. The last few months have seen three tragic terrorist attacks occur in the United Kingdom in quick succession. The question we now find ourselves asking is what more could have been done to prevent ...June 7, 2017
The Error of Arming the Syrian Kurds
By Kyle Orton. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. LONDON — The United States recently committed itself to arming the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, known as the Y.P.G., to help evict the Islamic State from its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa. ...June 6, 2017
Why Trump’s wrong to obsess over terrorists’ nationality rather than developing a smart plan to defeat their ideology
This article originally appeared in the New York Daily News. By Nikita Malik. As the most recent terrorist attacks unfolded in London, President Trump took to Twitter to express anger and frustration towards the resistance to the travel bans he has sought ...June 5, 2017
Why Russia (probably) isn’t hacking the general election
By Dr Andrew Foxall. This article originally appeared in CapX. Ever since 18 April, when Theresa May called the election, a key question has been whether Russia would interfere in the democratic process. In Whitehall, that question has been treated as a ...June 4, 2017
The Terrorists Are Clear, It Isn’t About Foreign Policy
By Tom Wilson This article originally appeared in CapX. Today, Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech claiming that UK foreign policy “increases the threat” to this country, suggesting that this has been a cause of terrorism on British soil. The old debate about terrorist ...Featured Video
Key Publications
July 5, 2017
Foreign Funded Islamist Extremism in the UK
A new report from The Henry Jackson Society, “Foreign Funded Islamist Extremism in the UK”, has highlighted the need for a public inquiry into the foreign-based funding of Islamist extremism.
We report on a growing body of evidence on the considerable ...June 15, 2017
The Kings of State Procurement
That summer day in 2005 completely changed the life of Pavel Yakshis, an ordinary St Petersburg motorist moonlighting as a deliveryman. He was driving his Gazelle van along Tikhoretsky Prospekt in the northern capital when a concrete mixer in front ...April 27, 2017
Spotting The Signs: Identifying Vulnerability To Radicalisation Among Students
A new report from The Henry Jackson Society, Spotting The Signs: Identifying Vulnerability To Radicalisation Among Students, investigates students who have travelled from the United Kingdom to join terrorist organisations in Syria and Iraq. Those who have fought or trained abroad have been ...April 19, 2017
From Metropole to the PEN Centre
The Metropole affair of 1979 made a special contribution to the struggle for the anti-censorship Article 29 of the Russian Constitution, which the current regime has gone to great lengths to reduce to the status of a stage prop. The ...April 4, 2017
How the Press Elected the President
Boris Yeltsin won the 1996 presidential election in the second round after starting the campaign with an approval rating of 13 per cent. Almost twenty-one years ago, on 3 July 1996, the second round of the presidential election was held in ...Topics
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