by raffaellopantucci | Aug 18, 2016 | Monitor
A new piece in the wake of the revelation of Anjem Choudary’s conviction for the Guardian looking at the question of the importance of leadership in terrorist networks and what his detention means. The article is a bit less declarative as the title, but there we...
by raffaellopantucci | Jun 30, 2016 | Monitor
And a second post-Brexit article, this time for the Guardian, covering some of the same points but this time focused singularly on the far right and the implications for them for the Brexit vote. This has some depressing portents in the future for it, and lets hope...
by raffaellopantucci | Dec 8, 2015 | Monitor
A short response to last Friday’s incident in Leytonstone for the Guardian where an apparently mentally troubled man attacked some people on the tube. Unclear case, though his expression of ideology suggests a possible terrorist connection in there somewhere. A...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a bullet train of thought re Daesh from the New Yorker ] . Kenji Goto, friend of Syrians ** George Packer, in Why ISIS Murdered Kenji Goto a couple of days ago, connects a longer distance between ideas faster than the bullet train from...
by raffaellopantucci | Dec 26, 2014 | Monitor
First of all: Happy holidays to anyone who is reading this! A brief hiatus over the holiday period after a slowdown towards the end of the year for a variety of reasons, but will be hopefully back to more regular output next year. In the wake of Sydney (and subsequent...