How Islamic is Islamic State? Shiraz Maher’s new book investigates
Maher's Salafi-Jihadism: the History of an Idea draws on research and the author's personal experience to investigate the ideology which drives jihadism.
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Leader: Pandora’s box has been opened
The referendum has unleashed dark forces and furies into the body politic and we shall be living with the consequences…
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Brexit means little to refugees prepared to die fleeing climate change
Britain can shut its borders, but it can't alone stop climate change.
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The war within wars
Why the Western-backed assault on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is failing.
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The price of a life
In 2014, Islamic State fighters murdered thousands of Yazidis and kidnapped many others, mostly women and children. Their desperate relatives…
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How Tony Blair’s disingenuous line on Iraq eroded our faith in politicians
Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne reveals how Blair exagerrated evidence from the intelligence services to parliament – and the…
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The age of hyper-terrorism
Jihadis, spectacular mass-casualty attacks and the myth of an apocalyptic new world order.
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Second life: one refugee family’s journey to Hull, via Darfur, Tripoli and Cairo
In 2015 the government's Gateway programme offered 750 refugees the chance to resettle in the UK. Our writer followed one family for six months as…
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