There are lots of lone nutters with knives. The significance of them being lone nutters is that their attacks aren't coordinated. So an attack on a train yesterday does not presage a sustained campai… (View Post)

Most definitions have their grey areas where it can be hard to say exactly what side of the boundary a particular incident should lie. I think in this sort of situation the police could do with being… (View Post)

I think people have mostly been arrested for supporting terrorism, rather than terrorism per se. I wouldn't describe Palestine Action as terrorist myself, but I don't see it as confusing the definiti… (View Post)

We don't describe serial killers as terrorists. Terrorism implies a political agenda. Some people are violent nihilists. It is useful to discriminate between the two. (View Post)

My Grandmother had some trouble escaping Vienna to make it to Britain after the Anschluss, and I do not think that the general experience of Jewish refugees seeking to make their way to Britain would… (View Post)