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As mentioned above the recent big leap forward for me are the BigDrop beers. They have almost managed to remove that aftertaste.

I'm not sure you can leave a religion anywhere can you ?

The very conversation I had with a particularly forthright pro Palestine protestor who approached me to sign a petition in a city centre this year, prompted by something she said. I then get labelled a Zionist apologist or something, which I'm clearly not. As a society I think our reaction to...

Fair observation, but my point is about the reaction and "solutions" offered above. This individual appears to have been living in Germany for 20 years. This is potentially not so much about immigration but radicalisation in the modern age. We can ban as many immigrants as we wish, but it...

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Well at least we know where you stand. Just some points I need to correct. I never said that, in fact organised groups are far easier now to infiltrate. I was making the point (that others have) is that lone wolf individuals (if he is one) are quite difficult to detect. I used some other...

I think it's called the Royal Family.

eh ? If anything the delay has been caused by the action of Reform MPs. If you attempt to politicise a decision of the CPS they are going take much longer to ensure all the boxes are ticked. How anyone falls for this opportunism from Reform is beyond me, but that's populism for you.

.never mind, maybe I was wrong. I think the essence of the post was that the inevitable reactions will cause more division and round and round we go. A cycle we eventually got away from with the IRA. If there is any solution to all this (I'm not sure there is), then it has to come in part...

Reported on the news there was an explosive device in the car the didn't detonate. In this instance, I'm glad (feels wrong to say that) they've got him in case others are involved and they quickly round them up. Appalling.

I think it was an observation rather than a personal opinion.

I'm not, but I can compare it from years ago.

If you can't learn from the past you simply repeat the same mistakes.

Now, but in the past their threat was very high. But thank you for highlighting my "desperation" about the IRA, one day we may meet and tell you what I personally experienced. I try to draw parallels from experience. The threat now is clearly from radical Islam, but in the past is from...

I don't think that's in doubt, I was simply saying that it's very difficult to identify the lone wolves of any radical persuasion. What you can't clearly do, is identify everyone of a particular religion or heritage as a potential risk. We didn't for instance deport all the Irish when the IRA...

They can't, not 100% and you just have to sort of live with it. Nobody really expected the IRA to target Warrington when I lived there, particularly with the large percentage of people with Irish descent (at least) who lived there, but they did.

Yes and I remember being almost blown up by the IRA in the 90s but that's another story. Not sure what you mean by "risk", but lone individuals who decide to do something horrific (as many above have mentioned) are very very difficult for the security services to head off. So what is the...

I think you misread the post.

Not sure what you mean by the "elephant in room", but if I think it's what you mean it's not going to deal with lone wolf individuals radicalised, often by what they read on the internet unfortunately. The cat is out the bag on that one. That applies to both radical interpreters of religion...

Bricklayers arms - still going. An obscure one off Tottenham Court Road.