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The police were criticised in July this year for not arresting a man draped in an ISIS flag right outside the Houses of Parliament. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/05/man-carrying-isis-flag-near-parliament-not-arrested-police-criticised I reckon that's just as offensive as any...

And it looks like you've lifted your material straight from any Mark Steel sketch. His preferred way of shutting down debate is by arguing from ridiculous and somewhat irrelevant extremities too.

I'm glad we agree that it isn't so easy to understand. As regards it being the West's fault, I'll freely support you in the Iraq invasion being a sham but that's as far as I'll go. It seems the West is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. Assad and Hussein were using chemical weapons and...

So it's the West's fault for 'backing the wrong side'?Just my opinion but I'd hold off with all the snide comments and point-scoring if that's your overall conclusion to this apparently easy to understand crisis.

Reported on Friday in the Berliner Morgenpost, the second most popular paper in the capital that 2 security staff at a refugee camp were beaten up by Syrians who told the guards that they were "members of ISIS and the guards were going to die"...

I'd have more time for your views if you didn't try to conflate the problems in Calais with those in Syria. I don't think anyone is in any doubt that those at Calais trying to enter the UK are doing so for economic reasons. Encouraging immigrants as you are doing to head for Calais is the very...

I'm going to agree with you here Mustafa, it should help put current things into perspective a little. Another example was Tanzania during the Rwandan genocide took over half a million people and it was and remains one of the poorest countries on Earth. Burundi, with a population of 10 million...

Exactly the plot of the Martin Amis novel Time's Arrow.

Rather than holding up a sign, here's a video of a bunch of Conservative politicians working at a Syrian refugee centre in Turkey only a few weeks back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzvrHP3BnLc Now I know that a lot of people have the Tories down as uncaring *******s when it comes to this...

I've no idea about the rights and wrongs of this crisis, it's heartbreaking for sure but we can't offer just platitudes, we have to consider practicalities - if the UK takes these refugees then they have to go somewhere and quite simply there is nowhere for them to go in the South-East. The...

This phrase 'neo-liberal'. You do know it doesn't actually mean anything, don't you? It's just a lazy term of abuse that the left use without context or justification, see also 'Red Tory'. It's all various shades of laissez-faire capitalism and that's been around as long as socialism and its...