Pizzey's Perch

Of the many apho­risms on  hind­sight, the one which ought to be the truest was penned by the ancient Greek writer Homer: “After the event, even a fool is wise.” Too often and albeit for dif­fer­ent rea­sons, pol­i­cy mak­ers and jour­nal­ists have an abil­i­ty to be the excep­tion. One of the most sin­is­ter exam­ples is jihadism and I was, in a small way, part of it.… Read the rest