Simon Cottee

Simon Cottee is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent.

Will CNN apologise for its Syrian prisoner misinformation? Clarissa Ward represents much of what is wrong with journalism

19 Dec 2024

The dangerous martyrdom of Tommy Robinson

28 Oct 2024

Autistic teens are not a national security threat A new report in the FT makes an extremely tenuous claim

20 Oct 2024

Why couldn’t the UK deal with the Isis matchmaker?

10 Sep 2024

Meet the three types of rioter

15 Aug 2024

Tommy Robinson is copying the progressive playbook

08 Aug 2024

Why the Southport suspect’s identity matters

01 Aug 2024

Is Donald Trump the victim of stochastic terrorism?

17 Jul 2024

Glenn Loury: confessions of a douchebag

17 May 2024

The truth about Britain’s teenage terrorists

02 May 2024

What if the Sydney killer had no motive? Commentators were quick to blame the attacks on misogyny and Islamism

18 Apr 2024

Should you watch footage of terrorist attacks?

27 Mar 2024

The hypocrisy of the BBC’s misinformation war

07 Mar 2024

The truth about KCL’s ‘indoctrination’ scandal

23 Jan 2024

The Marxist who recognised evil

18 Oct 2023

Incels are the new jihadis

18 Sep 2023

The arrogance of fighting extremism

24 Aug 2023

Is Tucker Carlson a “stochastic terrorist”? There's a fashionable new term in town, and it isn't helpful

11 Nov 2022

The seductive horror of extremist violence

13 Oct 2022

Don’t fall for the Isis Matchmaker

04 Oct 2022

The Shamima Begum delusion

02 Sep 2022

The Jihadists of the Caribbean

26 Jul 2022

Twitter turns the Highland park shooting into a culture war The shooter was neither a white supremacist or Antifa activist

07 Jul 2022

America needs to calm down

06 Jul 2022

What progressive extremism experts get wrong

27 Jun 2022

The men who watch gore porn

07 Jun 2022

The Guardian is wrong: jihadis are still the biggest terrorism threat Left-wing publications are inflating the risk of far-Right extremism

24 May 2022

Beware the terrorism ‘experts’ Certain researchers are using the Buffalo shooting to hawk their services

18 May 2022

Norway doesn’t understand evil

08 Feb 2022

Police campaign paints terrorists as victims The latest counter-terrorism PR effort is frankly bizarre

07 Jan 2022

The liberal fantasy of the Capitol coup

06 Jan 2022

The hypocrisy of America’s terror debate

06 Dec 2021

Our ritual response to Islamist terror Why is the first step always to genuflect before the Muslim community?

19 Nov 2021

The theatre of terror

06 Sep 2021

Why ISIS love to kill

13 Apr 2021

The trivialisation of trauma

10 Mar 2021

We need to talk about terrorism

22 Feb 2021