This week, more information about the Government’s controversial Online Safety Bill filtered out into the public domain. Rather than being a wholesale rethink of the more news-friendly and damaging proposals…
Terrorism
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A massive fire engulfed the outskirts of Jerusalem recently. The fire was seen all around the capital, even as far as Ariel in the north. But I want to talk…
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Immediately following the attacks of September 11th 2001, the anger and resolve of the American people was a guiding force of US foreign policy. The world’s preeminent power was faced…
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Operation Guardian of the Walls is an Israeli military operation that lasted 12 days. Its stated goal is to remove the threat of Hamas missiles from the Gaza Strip against…
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is only one of many territorial and religious conflicts worldwide, but it seems to draw more international attention than any other. Here is a fact, which in…
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Antisemitism is a stain on our society. It is an ugly hatred that deserves to be consigned to the past and yet it seems that it is a spectre that…
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Africa
Three years under Boko Haram is too long: Bring Back Leah Sharibu
by Ayo Adedoyinby Ayo AdedoyinFriday marked three years since Leah Sharibu was brutally abducted by Boko Haram. Leah was taken hostage in Dapchi, Yobe State along with 109 other girls, on 19 February 2018, aged…
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What started in 2011 as a popular uprising against the Syrian regime escalated into an all-out war that engulfed both Syria and Iraq, drew in a suite of regional actors…
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US security forces could rescue Nigeria’s suffering poster-girl, Leah Sharibu in 24 hours, but under Nigeria’s President Buhari she has been in captivity for two and a half years. Are…
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The news that the Governor of Borno State in Nigeria has requested the help of neighbouring Chad’s military to defeat Boko Haram, came as a humbling yet welcome move to…