The Liberal party turned around its fortunes with vocal resistance to Donald Trump.
- Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
While the film’s terrorists may have been fake, the message about the political climate of the time is real.
The UK needs all the friends it can get after Brexit – angering Canada isn’t a good move.
Not all mass shooters are white supremacists, but they are nearly all men.
London is struggling to manage a violent crime epidemic, yet the Manchester attack attracted global attention.
Seven world leaders with axes to grind are preparing to sit round one table. Sparks will fly.
The attack in London was horrific but armed officers were on the scene and ending it with astonishing speed.
Jeremy Corbyn was criticised for raising this issue on the campaign trail but it’s time we talked about it.
Motivation is what separates an act of violence from an act of terrorism, and we don’t know what drove Khalid Masood to kill.
Canada is dealing with some of the same tensions about integration and tolerance as other Western countries.
After years of promises, the government still has not detailed how a bill to tackle extremism would work.
The focus has for a long time been on protecting aircraft. We’ve just been reminded how vulnerable pre-check-in areas can be.
For better or for worse, various countries around the world charted a new course last year. What lies ahead for 2016?
Canada’s new premier has spectacularly revived his party after years on life support – but he’s not just his legendary father’s son.
With Canada’s election campaign ramping up, Stephen Harper’s government has pummelled the opposition with a barrage of fearmongering.
With the shock from the Paris terrorist attacks barely diminished, attention in a number of Western capitals is understandably fixated on counter-terrorism. Politicians are focused on the question of how…
With its vigorous, fractious media and political environment, the UK is a nation of second guessers. Nowhere is that more evident than in the response to the vicious murder of Lee Rigby. A parliamentary…
For some, it began with a tap on the shoulder at Oxford or Cambridge. Now recruitment for British intelligence occurs via newspaper and online advertisements and aptitude tests through websites. Despite…
To read much of the media coverage of the shootings at the Canadian parliament in Ottawa, you might think that Canada has just lost its innocence – that sleepy Ottawa has finally been dragged into the…
Almost as quickly as the first responders in the aftermath of a terrorist attack arrive, come the second guessers. In the case of the horrendous incident in Woolwich last week, it was not long before it…
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