Tag Archives: terrorism
Wanna be on top?
After Austria’s Next Top Model, Germany’s Next Top Model, Britain’s Next Top Model, American Idol, Britain’s Got Talent, America’s Best Dance Crew, and not least Flava of Love, we now impatiently await the final of the International Atomic Energy Agency‘s … Continue reading
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Interesting paper time
I’ve just returned from a study trip to Brussels and Luxembourg, where I saw the EU institutions in all their glory and learned a little about EU military defence (is nuffink for Stateside pundits to get excited about), which accounts … Continue reading
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….and it’s gone!
The ‘war on terror’ is over! Well, it’s been rebranded. But it was a necessary rebranding. Phew! I wrote on this before. Now we can get on with our lives and think about policy. Mind you, McDonald’s rebranded with its … Continue reading
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Tee hee hee
Poor Rachel Sylvester has written a reasonably un-nutty article about how a nuclear deterrent is a bit old hat in the context of modern warfare blah blah blah. It’s a shame that the Times Online has managed to pick a … Continue reading
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Mars attacks!
The British Home Office has today published their updated counter-terrorism strategy. As you might expect, there’s more anguish about dirty bombs (terrorists’ home-made nukes), and a possible of correlation of this risk with the incidence of failed states. The possibility … Continue reading
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A beginner’s guide to terrorism
(Ok, well, a beginner’s guide to defining terrorism.) Asking “what is terrorism?” is not dissimilar to asking “what is emo?” It is notoriously difficult to define, and seems to have a Cartesian knowing-the-wax quality to it. There is no universally … Continue reading
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David Miliband and the death of the ‘war on terror’?
Finally, David Miliband is able to live out the fantasy first enacted by Hugh Grant’s PM telling Billy Bob Thornton’s philandering president where to stick it in Love Actually. Sort of. Considering that Obama is to be inaugurated on Jan … Continue reading
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