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Monday 5 September 2011	War on Terror


Frank Furedi After 9/11: ten years of a war against… who? In the first of his series of ‘On Reflection’ essays, Frank Furedi reflects on our leaders' inability to give a name to their post-9/11 wars.

Wednesday 13 July 2011
Tim Black The Human Rights Watch plan to save US imperialism HRW is demanding that Bush be tried for war crimes only because it wants to resuscitate US authority over the uncivilised hordes.

Friday 6 May 2011
Brendan O’Neill The rise and rise of a pity-for-Osama lobby The chattering classes’ ‘uncomfortable feeling’ with the killing of bin Laden is underpinned more by moral cowardice than political principle.

Thursday 5 May 2011
Bill Durodié The West’s very own celeb terrorist Whether he was droning on about climate change or consumption, OBL’s ‘ideas’ were born and bred in the West.

Wednesday 4 May 2011
Brendan O’Neill The killing of OBL: therapy for the West Why the shooting of a sickly has-been jihadist was turned into a momentous and historic occasion on a par with VJ Day.

Tuesday 1 February 2011
Tim Black Stop trying to balance liberty with security Exaggerated fear of terrorism should not be allowed to water down our most fundamental freedoms.

Thursday 27 January 2011
Jon Holbrook The Human Rights Act: a crime against liberty The current debate about control orders shows how human-rights legislation actually aids the state in its attacks on our freedom.

Wednesday 5 January 2011
Nathalie Rothschild Doing the terrorists’ dirty work for them Nathalie Rothschild reports from Sweden where lawmakers are exploiting people’s fears to curtail liberty.

Wednesday 15 December 2010
Nathalie Rothschild A nihilistic attack on the modern world The idea that Sweden’s first suicide bombing was a logical consequence of Muslim oppression is mad.

Tuesday 30 November 2010
Frank Furedi Wikileaks: this isn’t journalism ‑ it’s voyeurism High-minded newspapers’ celebration of the latest Wikileaks revelations is a cynical attempt to turn voyeurism into a virtue.

Tuesday 23 November 2010
Tim Black Rage against the x‑ray machine The criticism of tomorrow’s mass protest against airport scanners highlights how much liberals have become detached from liberty.

Tuesday 23 November 2010
Brendan O’Neill What happens when you opt out of the scanner You can resist being x-rayed at airports, but be warned: you will be subjected to ‘the Diana Ross’ for doing so.

Thursday 18 November 2010
Tim Black Guantanamo Bay: battered moral authority The UK government’s offer of £10million to Guantanamo Bay detainees speaks to the elite’s disarray post-9/11.

Wednesday 3 November 2010
Mick Hume Terror: ‘f***ing calm down’ and carry on The Lib-Con government’s declaration of war on printer ink cartridges suggests that the politics of fear did not leave office with New Labour.

Wednesday 6 October 2010
Nathalie Rothschild Playing politics with terror alerts President Obama’s anti-terror advice to Americans in Europe was actually about rebuking European governments.

Thursday 9 September 2010
Frank Furedi Why 9/11 gave rise to a carnival of confusion The massive, unnecessary storm over the US pastor planning to burn some Korans speaks to the post-9/11 disarray of Western society.

Tuesday 3 August 2010
Brendan O’Neill David Cameron and the death of diplomacy The PM’s Israel-upsetting, Pakistan-isolating world tour shows that celebrity-style badmouthing has taken the place of diplomatic nicety.

Wednesday 7 July 2010
Rob Lyons Five years on: the lessons of 7/7 The bombings in London in 2005 were homegrown, nihilistic acts — not part of an international terrorist conspiracy.

Thursday 20 May 2010
Patrick Hayes Want to travel abroad? Computer says ‘No’ If Nick Clegg is serious about having a bonfire of repressive laws, he might want to chuck on the e-Borders scheme.

Thursday 13 May 2010
Nathalie Rothschild After thoughtcrime, now we have tweetcrime The conviction of a Twitter user for posting a joke about a bomb shows how insanely paranoid officialdom has become.
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