What's so out of order about it? Nobody said that IS were unlike anything we had seen before, PC Ernie has a "narrative". It's one about him being lied to by the powers that be all the time, and him being too clever for the lies. But he manufactures most of the lies he sees through for himself.

Anyone can draw the same Taliban to IS diagram as you did. And with some light Googling you would be able to go back as far as 1897 when Churchill fought the 'Talibs' and thought them very bad chaps. So how PC Ernie supposed he had been given a 'narrative' that assumes his total ignorance of such well known things is a bit of a mystery.

Rule of thumb: if somebody is trying to recreate an 8th Century political entity, accusations of great novelty are likely to be misplaced.

i don’t know why you are giving a reply to a demented loon ? ...

Boris Johnson: Get tough with British extremists

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28923689



I've little problem with debating whether we should remove citizenship, but asking the 'defendants' to prove themselves not guilty before charges have been brought etc?



He's starting his PM campaign early, isn't he? Many would argue interfering in the Middle East is exactly why we have terrorists at our front door. And a lot of needlessly dead soldiers.



Oh, look, we've got Met. figures that have drastically dropped in a matter of days. It's around 250 now. I wonder what the ratio of lazy reporting to Met. BS is.