An excerpt from my latest column for the International New York Times, on the Manchester bomb attack: We need to think more deeply, too, about our immediate responses to acts of terror. Terrorism is a form of theater. Particularly for contemporary Islamist terror, what matters is the spectacle, nothing else. The more depraved that spectacle, the more it achieves its aim. . Murder someone on a Manchester street and it makes the local press. Slaughter two dozen people at a […]

Categories: Britain, War on terror • Tags: dylann roof, islamism, jihadism, manchester, media, terrorism