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Record numbers of children are being reported to the Government's anti-extremism services for expressing 'far right' ideology. More than 2,100 under-15s were referred to Prevent in 2022/23 over fears they were being groomed by extremists or at risk of radicalisation. Of them, 462 expressed 'extreme right wing' ideologies compared with 182 'Islamist' referrals. Eighty-eight were flagged over their interest in school massacres, with six suspected 'incels' also on the list. Prevent, ran by the Home Office, aims to stop terror attacks on British streets. Officials work with local authorities and community organisations to 'support and protect vulnerable people'. But the...

Henry Kissinger, now 95 years old, was recently interrupted and abused by New York University students as he attempted to have a public conversation with Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England. Before the event, 30 student groups, including NYU Against Fascism and Amnesty International at NYU, had demanded that it be cancelled because Kissinger was “the morally reprehensible poster child of U.S. militarism and imperialism.” They seem to have missed the point that he is one of the rare men in public life who has actually risked his life in the fight against fascism. NYU honorably...

To the British Left, William Shawcross is a traitor. The man who once excoriated Henry Kissinger for U.S. policies in Cambodia has become a devoted supporter of the Bush-Blair approach to foreign policy. His impressive new book, Allies: The U.S., Britain, Europe, and the War in Iraq, is a passionate call to arms in what Shawcross describes as "the most important battle of our time." He's not supposed to do that! And so now the venerated author of books such as Sideshow has landed himself on the British Left's list of turncoats. You know the one: It includes names like...

AS the war against Saddam Hussein comes closer, the prospect becomes more daunting. No one should be blithe about going to war. All wars have unintended and unexpected consequences. But the flip side is also true. When all other avenues have been tried, war sometimes becomes the necessary last resort. To flinch from it becomes far more dangerous than to accept its dread inevitability, as we learned between 1933 and 1939. The French would like us to believe we are rushing into war. Nonsense. For 12 years Hussein has defied UN demands that he hand over and destroy his biological,...