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Does Jonathan Powell really want to negotiate with the Islamic State?

Or does he just want more people talking about Jonathan Powell?

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

I think I’ve finally worked out the time-honoured Jonathan Powell formula for promoting a new book: take which-ever group constitutes the most bloodthirsty terrorist organisation of the day — in this case IS, the warped Islamist force currently enslaving and beheading its way across Iraq and Syria — and create a media fizz by boldly declaring that sooner or later we’re going to have to negotiate with them.

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