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Lone wolves?

The recent attack on the Finsbury Park mosque by Darren Osborne has rekindled the whole argument regarding so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorists. The Times was the first out of the gate with the headline “Jobless ‘lone wolf’ Darren Osborne held over attack on Finsbury Park mosque”. Other media reports were quick …

A new life?

I’ve just been reading a couple of interesting books, both of which are concerned, in their own ways, with ideology.  One is Owen Jones’ excellent study on The Establishment,1 whilst the other is Christian Fuchs’ critique of social media.2  For some strange reason, whilst I was reading Jones’ book I …