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Matthew Parris

The Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse plot’ is — like WMD — a neocon fantasy

It’s not enough to know what people would like to do. We need evidence they’ve done it

14 June 2014

9:00 AM

14 June 2014

9:00 AM

I can remember where I was when Colin Powell presented to the United Nations his evidence for the existence of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. I was taking a friend to an emergency medical consultation at Victoria station in London and while she saw the doctor I settled down in the waiting room to watch the presentation on TV.

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