Jamie Palmer

On Tuesday 24 June, the Sydney Opera House announced the cancellation of a talk entitled “Honour Killings Are Morally Justified”, scheduled to be delivered at the annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas by Uthman Badar, a Sydney-based spokesman for the Islamist

In response to news that the al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), had seized control of Mosul and surrounding territories in Northern Iraq, the Times journalist David Aaronovitch summarised the desperate situation as follows: Isis [now] loosely controls a big