Strong Fences Make Good Neighbours
People come up with all sorts of ideological reasons to try to explain conflict – “religion” is a favourite (Islam now, Christianity at various periods in the past), or nationalism, inequality, tyrannical government, whatever the bee may be in your particular bonnet. The truth is that these are mere excuses, evasions of the true causes of conflict which are ineradicable human characteristics – fear, or greed, or envy and thus the hatred which those emotions engender. The search for a solution…
They’ve Never Jihad It So Good!
By Max Musson: In an interview for BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police’s assistant commissioner and head of specialist operations, warned that Britain would feel the long-term consequences of the current Syrian conflict that is now spilling over into Iraq, stating: “I’m afraid I believe that we will be living with the consequences of Syria – from a terrorist point of view, let alone the world, geopolitical consequences –…