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The following is from our new briefing email, available to anyone who wants it. Just go to this handy sign-up page to be added to our mailing list. The political day today United front David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg all paid tribute to the victim of the Woolwich killing, now named as Drummer [...]
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Murder in Woolwich: was this gruesome beheading the work of serious jihadis or demented young men using Islam as an excuse for their psychotic fantasies? And will we see more incidents like this as religious extremism – and an anti-Muslim backlash – grows in our cities? This week’s Telegram offers expert commentary from Shashank Joshi, [...]
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What can we do to prevent the kind of atrocity that happened in Woolwich yesterday from happening again? So far, attention has focused on the security services, but there’s clearly not much that MI5 or the police can do. How do you stop home grown terrorists carrying out seemingly random attacks on off-duty soldiers? Any long-term [...]
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The US State Department has issued a statement in the aftermath of yesterday’s barbaric killing of a British soldier by Islamist militants in Woolwich. It reads in full: The United States condemns today’s attack in the Woolwich district of London. We stand with our U.K. allies in the face of such senseless violence. Our thoughts [...]
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If, as now seems likely, the two terrorists who carried out the barbaric machete attack on a British soldier in Woolwich were known to MI5, then senior officers at the Security Service are going to have a lot of explaining to do. While David Cameron this morning refused to be drawn on whether the two [...]
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Republican senator Ted Cruz thinks he knows how to prevent Texas being swamped by demographics. The Senate amendment he is proposing on immigration reform would deny all illegal immigrants access to benefits and a pass to citizenship. The context for Cruz’s intervention is what Greg Abbott, the Republican Attorney General for Texas, last month described [...]
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The extent to which great composers can be blind to the failings of bad libretti is a constant source of fascination, not to say entertainment. And I’ve just been hugely entertained by a performance of Handel’s oratorio Joseph and his Brethren at the Gottingen Handel Festspiele in central Germany. If you don’t know Joseph you [...]
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There was an act of terrorism in Woolwich yesterday. An act which will stay burned into the national consciousness for years. A horrific act, but an undeniably effective one. It wasn’t what you may think it was. It wasn’t the vicious murder of a man in south-east London by two young Islamists. It was the [...]
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After Bruno Waterfield’s cracking story about the EU trying to ban olive oil on restaurant tables, Harry Cole has a tale about conkers. The story has rattled cages, including that of Anne-Marie Trevelyan. Writing as @annietrev, she comments on Twitter:   Which would be uncontroversial enough, if it wasn’t for the fact that Mrs Trevelyan [...]
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Oh what a tangled web central bankers weave when they practice to deceive… Last night’s panic in Tokyo, where the Nikkei dropped a stomach churning 7 per cent, demonstrates just how difficult it’s going to be for the world’s central banks to exit their loose money policies. It’s not even as if Ben Bernanke, chairman [...]
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