By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter With the release of 'The Iron Lady' last Friday, political commentary has focused on feminism, and women in politics a great deal. This morning in a Telegraph blog, Cristina Odone discusses the superiority of Tory feminism. She writes: "Blue feminists don’t go in for the tokenism their red counterparts support. They […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Islamic persecution of Christians is a massive global issue. It has grown with instability across the Middle East. The Middle East Forum's record of violence and intolerance in November alone includes: In Nigeria, "Islamic militants shouting "Allahu Akbar" carried out coordinated attacks on churches and police stations, including opening fire […]
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter At a conference in Bonn today to discuss the future of Afghanistan, William Hague said that despite the absence of both the Taliban and Pakistan at the discussion table being far from ideal, a "sustainable Afghanistan with strong national security forces that is able to look after its own security" […]
Text of statement: “I think today is a day to remember all of Colonel Qadhafi’s victims, from those who died in connection with the Pan-Am flight over Lockerbie to Yvonne Fletcher in a London street and obviously all the victims of IRA terrorism who died through their use of Libyan Semtex. We should also remember […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter I wrote recently that the Government continues to engage with the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), although its Prevent Review said: "We judge that FOSIS has not always fully challenged terrorist and extremist ideology within the higher and further education sectors. FOSIS needs to give clearer leadership to […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter The death of Bin Laden has been read by some to suggest that the threat from Islamist extremism is over. But whatever the story may be behind this week's arrests in Birmingham, that conclusion is a mis-reading: the danger hasn't gone away. The Home Affairs Select Committee is currently […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Joe reported David Cameron's interview to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 yesterday. Today William Hague has issued this statement: “Today we commemorate the citizens of the United States and over 90 countries who perished in the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, including 67 British nationals. We remember […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Others will write superlative essays at Don Quixote length on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I'm ill equipped for the first task and ill disposed to the second. Instead I will make a single point as briefly as I can. 9/11 was followed in Britain by a focus on […]
Soldiers returning from Iraq – and marching through Luton as part of a homecoming parade – were greeted with banners branding them as "butchers, war criminals, murderers, terrorists — and baby killers" by Islamic extremists. Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Britain, told The Express: “This was a very offensive protest by a tiny […]
Shadow Security Minister Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is, according to the monthly ConservativeHome survey of grassroots members, the most popular female member of the shadow cabinet. Elevated to the Lords at the same time as Sayeeda Warsi she has been working away at developing a coherent Conservative security policy – taking a tough line on domestic […]
Quoted in the Daily Mail, Lord Tebbit leads Tory concern at Gordon Brown’s decision to award American Senator Ted Kennedy with an honorary knighthood: "Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the IRA but he certainly leaned towards extreme Republicanism. He was certainly no friend of the UK. This honour is wholly inappropriate […]
Going through the papers online this morning, I missed the fact that David Cameron had written in The Sun about the compensation being awarded to Abu Qatada (since his piece merely adjoins a news story rather than being an article in its own right). Here are the key extracts: "Unbelievably, taxpayers are going to have […]
The Daily Mail has been running hard this week on the issue of whether or not the British Government asked for help from the US Government to cover up the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident at Guantanamo Bay. It ran this article this morning and now the paper’s website has published a […]
Yesterday, after having first indicated that the Conservative Party would not be making on comment on the Geert Wilders row, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling did issue a statement in which he attacked the Government’s inconsistency over which "extremists" it would and wouldn’t allow into this country. He did not, however, appear to want to […]
3.45pm: Chris Grayling told me earlier that the party would NOT be issuing a statement on this issue but forty minutes ago this statement was released from his office: “We have consistently called on the Government to tackle extremists. If Geert Wilders has expressed views that represent a threat to public security, then we support […]