Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday 29 December 2009
Radical Chic
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the same age as those on the streets of Tehran. He comes from a privileged, indeed spoilt, background, as do they. And he appears to have been "radicalised", just as they have been. Why is this "radicalised" rich boy so much less acceptable than the others? And has anyone bothered to check by whom - which is to say, to what end - the other rich boys and girls have been "radicalised"?
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