Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Politics | 7 July 2007

Don’t mention the war on terror — even if we’re winning it

Don’t mention the war on terror — even if we’re winning it

The war on terror is over — or at least has been purged from the vocabulary of Gordon Brown’s government. The phrase, he has decided, will never be mentioned by any of his ministers. The men who attempted to attack a London nightclub and Glasgow Airport are ‘criminals’ and not warriors.

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