16 July 2025, 18:45

By Andrew Marr

Here’s a difficult question: what is a terrorist?

You might think the answer’s obvious, someone who murders or creates mayhem in pursuit of an ideology. Go after al Qaeda, go after Nazis.

The trouble is, as the horrific Southport killings a year ago showed, not everyone who’s dangerous has clear political or religious beliefs. Some just get fixated on extreme violence after watching online material.

Remember the TV drama series adolescence?

Well, a year ago Lord Anderson, the former........

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