Why Stop the War don’t want to listen to Syrians
The Stop the War Coalition event in Parliament on 2 November was only the latest in a series where they have tried to exclude Syrians from discussion of their own country
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Stop the War refuse to listen to Syrians during debate…on Syria
Only Westerners are allowed to talk about Syria
Trying to destroy ISIS by only attacking it on the Iraqi side of the border makes no sense
The Foreign Affairs Committee highlights how badly David Cameron’s government has handled the Syria crisis
Daily Express recycles Russian propaganda on Syrian refugees
The paper hails Vladimir Putin’s ‘heroic efforts’
Comment: why NATO was right to intervene in Libya
Once the uprising was underway, violence and instability were in Libya’s future regardless
Labouring on Syria: Hilary Benn’s response to Jo Cox
Cox makes a radical departure from current parliamentary debate, while Benn remains within the parameters
Littlejohn is annoyed Benedict Cumberbatch is raising money for Syrian refugees
Groupthink papers tell government’s critics to ‘shut up’
Comment: The Ankara bombings highlight dangerous Turkish fault lines
Erdogan’s paranoia about Kurdish separatism is blinding him to the ISIS threat
Curtains up on the Syrian civil war: the EU is watching from the gallery
Brussels appears unable to step into the breach, feeling its job is to sort out the immigration crisis but not much else
After a year of fighting IS the coalition has little to show for it
Attempts to degrade IS’s financial infrastructure have led to widespread poverty, hunger and disease