I’m with Rod on the wannabe jihadi brides going to Syria. The whole official approach demonstrated by the BBC et al is just the same as the government-sponsored videos that crop up on YouTube urging people not to join Isis: a sort of ‘please don’t go, we’re better together’ pleading.
But if we really do want to stop young people going out, why not put a bit more grit into it? A bit more stick as well as carrot? Why waste this massive amount of airtime just to say that these poor girls didn’t know what they were doing, are nice...
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