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Al-Qa’eda has relocated to Africa

There has been general shock at the attempted downing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 over Detroit. It isn’t just that yet another aeroplane terrorist atrocity was averted only by luck…

Diary

To Edinburgh, that most gracious and civilised of cities, for what promises to be a less than altogether agreeable experience. I have to confess that, when BBC1’s Question Time rang…

Britain's Quisling party

So now we finally have the unequivocal answer to the question some of us have been insistently asking: what is the point of the Conservative party? The answer…

The clash of uncivilisations

The frenzy over the participation of BNP leader Nick Griffin on Question Time this week has been a classic case of failing to identify the real elephant in the room.…

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial columns on political and social issues Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she…

Obama in Cairo

First, the good bits in Obama’s speech in Cairo.

He told the Palestinians unequivocally that violence was wrong.

He said that there was an unbreakable bond between…

Beware the new axis of evangelicals and Islamists

Last weekend the Revd Stephen Sizer, vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water appeared at an anti-Israel meeting with an Islamist called Ismail Patel. Patel has not only accused Israel of…

Change we can all believe in

So the new dawn of American politics has brought us, on day one, what exactly? First off, Obama makes a speech to the American Jews of AIPAC that is such…

Motes and beams

I never had sex with that woman! said President Clinton about Monica Lewinsky.

I never said I would talk to terrorists! protested presidential hopeful Barack Obama, after President Bush…

Happy 60th birthday, Israel: well done for surviving

What would Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have said if, on the day that he declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he had known that…