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FILES - A picture taken on November 5, 2014 shows French writer Michel Houellebecq posing during his photo exhibition 'Before Landing' at the Pavillon Carre de Baudouin in Paris. Houellebecq attacks French newspaper 'Le Monde' on trial for 'copyright infringement' and 'violation of the secrecy of his correspondence,' the newspaper announced on September 9, 2015 on its website. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA

Myth and reality

The debate on Islam has been reduced to carping about Islamophobia. This not only alienates people whose support Muslims need to fight real Islamophob

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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - This undated image shows a frame from a video released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, by Islamic State militants that purports to show the killing of taxi driver Alan Henning by the militant group.Violence has been a focal point of Islamic State group propaganda, to show the militants’ might and recruit the thousands of foreign fighters who have rushed to join them. But the group had held Western hostages for months and, in some cases, even years. Not until the airstrikes began, weakening the group’s momentum, did the extremists start beheading the white Westerners. (AP Photo)

The last hurrah?

Questions are being raised about the “shelf life”of the I.S. Those who were initially seduced by its message now believe they have ended up creating a

A man fires a RPG in this still image taken from an undated recruitment video for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shot at an unknown location and uploaded to a social media website on June 19, 2014. Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the wars in Syria and Iraq, in the new video released by ISIL. REUTERS/Social Media Video via REUTERS TV (Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST)

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Home-grown jehadis

Brainwashed by Islamist propaganda in Internet chat rooms and secret conclaves, hordes of British Muslim youths are tripping on jehadi safaris, volunt

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(FILES) In a file picture taken on January 18, 2011 a general view of the Sculeni border crossing point from Romania to the Republic of Moldova. Britain is gripped by fresh fears that a new wave of immigrant workers will arrive after restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian nationals are lifted on January 1. The government has rushed through legislation restricting EU migrants from claiming unemployment handouts. Ministers refuse to give any official figure of how many Bulgarians and Romanians it expects to come to Britain, but estimates vary from 30,000 to 70,000 a year. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL MIHAILESCU

Free Europe in shackles

A leaked British government proposal to cap immigration from E.U. member-states has provoked fury across Europe, with the U.K.’s allies accusing it of

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Targeting immigrants

The government’s latest campaign against illegal immigrants leads to charges of racism and exposes the country’s hidden racial fault lines.

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham is seen in this undated handout aerial photograph. The Guardian newspaper reported on June 7, 2013 that Britain's eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, had been secretly gathering intelligence from a secret programme involving the internet companies code-named PRISM and had had access to the system since at least June 2010. GCHQ said in an emailed statement to Reuters: 'Our work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate'. Reuters/Handout (BRITAIN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS BUSINESS TELECOMS) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Thick as thieves

The David Cameron government, whose surveillance department has all along colluded with the CIA, provokes anger and ridicule by resorting to an all-to

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Media under fire

The Justice Leveson report is a scathing indictment of the excesses of the British press. The political establishment is, however, divided on its call

Asylum & stand-off

Ecuador stands firm on the grant of asylum to Julian Assange despite Britains explicit threat to strip its embassy of diplomatic status.

An empire on trial

Eight high-profile figures in Rupert Murdochs British media empire have been criminally charged over the NoW hacking scandal.

Divided Kingdom

Under the Cameron government, Britain today is a nation divided sharply into haves and have-nots.

Travails of a crusader

Julian Assange has further legal options in his battle against extradition, but funds might prove a constraint.

Explosive cocktail

Individualistic materialism combined with anger among those who feel socially and economically excluded led to the riots in Britain.