Before we here in the West climb right up onto our high horse and fueled by hubris and misplaced self-righteousness participate in what could potentially be a catastrophic military intervention in the Syrian civil war, escalating that conflict into World War III, let us pause for a moment of reflection and consider where our own national interests lie. And let us consider also the possibility that there are two sides to any conflict. Western governments emboldened…

During the last forty-eight hours the news has been dominated by reports of a random, cowardly, ill-conceived and deplorable attack on members of the Muslim community of Finsbury Park, London. The attack appears to have been carried out by a man who has no previous history of racist or Islamophobic behaviour; who has no history of membership of so-called ‘far-right’ groups or political parties; who has according to the police, ‘no far-right digital footprint’; and who was…

By Max Musson: Just when we might have hoped the immigration situation could not get any worse, it has today been announced that our government will offer an undisclosed number of Afghan interpreters who have been assisting British troops in Afghanistan, the right to come and live in Britain, with free travel to the UK and their first three months accommodation provided rent free. Press reports state that “up to 600 Afghans” who have risked…