Know Your Enemy

"The same media companies who have lambasted social media platforms for not acting fast enough to remove extremist content are simultaneously publishing uncensored Daesh propaganda on their websites, or make the rambling 'manifestos' of crazed killers available for download."

It's about time that the likes of the Sun and the Daily Mail got a booting for their hypocritical coverage of terrorist atrocities. That it's come in an open letter written by Neil Basu, our Head of Counter-Terrorism Policing, only gives it added force.

Given the tabloids' obsession with how terrorists are radicalised, perhaps they might finally stop pointing the finger at others, look a bit closer to home and accept some responsibility.