Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

How do bright schoolgirls fall for jihadis? The same way they fall for Justin Bieber

Isis may seem like bullies to us, but in the skewed light of a smartphone they appear as underdogs, a revolutionary brave brigade taking on the big bad West

issue 28 February 2015
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