Tom Griffin reports on the recent High Court judgement which ruled that British security services colluded in the unlawful detention and interrogation of Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident detained in Pakistan six years ago.

The Government this week apologised for smearing the victims of one of the first major bombings of the Troubles, writes Tom Griffin.

_Tom Griffin_ comments on the creation of Standpoint, a new neo-conservative magazine published by the right-wing think tank the Social Affairs Unit.

There is little original about the Euston Manifesto, argues Tom Griffin, except its choice of targets. It represents an application of cold war propaganda techniques to the new circumstances of the war on terror.

Douglas Murray's brand of neo-conservatism, which calls for all immigration into Europe from Muslim countries to be stopped, has cast it's shadow over government policy and perhaps even Nato planning argues _Tom Griffin_.

Is the Cold War the best guide to how Britain should deal with Islam? That is what Charles Moore (pictured) suggested in a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies last month:

It is clear from the IRD’s record in Northern Ireland what a revival of its methods would mean, writes Tom Griffin: a resort to widespread disinformation, the paranoid condemnation of all opponents as the dupes of a monolithic terrorist conspiracy, and the exploitation of national security concerns to justify domestic political manipulation by unaccountable elites.

The claim that Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness was an MI6 agent must rank as one of the more intriguing intelligence stories of recent years, writes Tom Griffin, but a careful examination of the episode may reveal more about disinformation techniques than infiltration of the IRA.

There is reason to believe that Cold War methods of psychological warfare are already shaping the debate about Islam and the war on terror in Britain, writes Tom Griffin.