HJS looks at the al-Qaeda suspect who may be eligible for a payout thought to be worth approximately £1,000,000, and for whom even the Prime Minister is campaigning. Last Sunday, for the second week in a row, The Henry Jackson Society has been featured prominently in The Sunday Telegraph. After our initial, front-page success in highlighting the number of terrorists […]
On Sunday The Henry Jackson Society’s Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism’s (CRT) work was once again featured in an agenda-setting piece in the media, running under the headline ‘Human Rights Act helps 28 terrorists to stay in Britain’ on the front page of The Sunday Telegraph.The piece was entirely inspired by and conceived on the basis of CRT […]
What has Japan done? Most of us can agree that for years Western European and North American democracies have received a considerable degree of criticism – and applied a considerable degree of self-criticism – based on our recent and far-distant historical actions. In Britain and France the carving up of the Ottoman empire keeps coming […]
There is a disturbing tendency that has grown in the West in recent years. That is the tendency to put our own prejudices in the mouths of terrorist. The tendency of people to decide that when a terrorist atrocity occurs it is done for the reasons which we wish it to have been done for. […]
Between 7 and 9 January, Paris witnessed a brutal and drawn-out terrorist attack which left 17 dead and sparked widespread debate on questions of security and freedom of speech. Though shocking, the attack is just one in a string of radical Islamic terrorist atrocities targeting civilians as well as the democratic and security institutions of Western nations. As […]
Last week it was America that suffered a self-inflicted wound. This week it was Britain.The al-Sweady inquiry was a five year, £31 million judge-led inquiry into a single incident involving British troops in Iraq. Ten years ago, after a particularly bloody battle, British troops took a number of Iraqi insurgents (from the Mahdi army) into […]
This week the political partisanship of Washington – which everyone has spoken about so much in recent years – dealt a devastating blow not only to itself but to the reputation of America. The Senate Intelligence Committee looking into the actions of the CIA under the last Republican presidency split long before the majority report […]
Present or former Bishops saying silly things is part of the rich fabric of our national comedy in Britain. Historically their silliest pronouncements are those which appear to disprove their own faith. But in recent years an unamusing silliness has also entered into this. For instance there was Rowan Williams’ fateful pro-Sharia comments some years […]
The mid-term elections in America have gone the way that most pundits predicted: a Republican rout in the mid-terms. The discussion immediately went on to the next question: what does this mean? In some ways the answer is ‘not very much’. The mid-terms are the only real opportunity American voters get to voice their dissatisfaction […]
What, in the end, did we get from Afghanistan? As British forces finally withdrew from the country this week that is the question which now lingers and divides. On the one hand we have newspapers and popular commentators praising the heroic performance of our troops who have served in their thousands over the last twelve […]
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai is a reminder of an important fact. It is possible – with all the terrible events in the world, the apparently ceaseless absorption of bad news – to think that the enemies of civilisation have some advantages over us. After all it is only tyrants […]
In 2010, HJS Associate Director Douglas Murray wrote an article summing up our objections to the problematic components of the government’s Prevent strategy – its flagship anti-terror policy, as it was then. Writing in theTelegraph he said: ‘Barking Mosque received more than £5,000 to provide rap “workshops” and lunches. Something called “Bedford: Faith in Queens Park” received […]
The Henry Jackson Society is proud to announce the launch of its new research centre, The Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism (CRT). This first-of-its-kind institute ties together HJS experts’ extensive knowledge and the organisation’s unique reach to provide top-quality, in-depth research coupled with the proactive execution and implementation of targeted, tangible and […]
‘Perhaps it is the end of the beginning’ were the words that Winston Churchill used to describe a very different conflict to the one we are currently in. When Churchill described the end of the preliminary battles of the Second World War he was speaking from a continent whose young men and women were signed […]
Not a week goes by without our work at HJS turning out to be ever more prescient and ever more disconcertingly necessary. Sometimes it is our work on Russia and other autocratic states. Sometimes – and never more so than in recent months – it is our work on Islamic extremism, its causes, proponents and […]