Category Archives: Arlene Foster

            Last month in the House of Lords, we debated an issue that should worry every serious policymaker in this country: the rapid advance of superintelligent artificial intelligence, and the alarming lack of urgency from government in dealing with it. This was the second debate on the subject in aContinue reading “The UK Must Act Now or Be Overtaken by Rogue AI”

            Last night I stood in the House of Lords to move Amendment 450 to the Crime and Policing Bill. I did so because the United Kingdom has reached a dangerous point: terrorism can be publicly praised, romanticised and sanitised, while the law struggles to respond. That is not aContinue reading “Why I will return to the Lords to close Britain’s terror glorification loophole”

            For two decades the United Kingdom has nominally outlawed the glorification of terrorism. In practice, the law has failed. I am putting forward an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill  because Parliament must confront an uncomfortable truth: we have allowed the public celebration of terrorist violence to becomeContinue reading “The Glorification of Terror Must Be a Crime”

            Join our free subscriber list [and pass it on to anyone who might benefit.] Donald Trump is rarely a model of diplomatic restraint. Yet every so often his instinctive bluntness cuts through layers of official obfuscation. His intervention on the proposed handover of sovereignty of the Chagos Islands toContinue reading “Trump’s blunt truth on Chagos exposes a dangerous British folly”

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