Calum Rutter

The spectre of anti-Semitism once again hangs over Europe. The news coverage of early 2015 has been overshadowed by two shootings, in Paris and in Copenhagen, which involved attacks on Jewish places (namely a kosher supermarket and a synagogue). Europe is in danger of reverting to an ugly old...

Europe faces an identity crisis. The January attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Copenhagen shootings have raised fresh questions about ‘home-grown’ terrorists – people who have been radicalised, often after having grown up within the same country that they attack, such as the recently ‘unmasked’ Mohammed...

Last weekend, 15-16th November, new British political party Left Unity held their conference. One of the proposals in particular caught the eye of right-wing bloggers such as Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes, who posted a video of ‘Looney’ ‘Left Unity debating backing ISIS.’ The proposed amendment (which in fact...