The Woolwich killers don't threaten the state, yet are treated as warriors in a new cold war | Simon Jenkins

The murderers of Lee Rigby are criminals. But it is the defence lobby, not the police, that reaps the rewards of British paranoia

The most serious threat to Britain's peace and security is from a few crazed Islamists indulging in a religious vendetta. The killers of a British soldier in Woolwich said they were "justified" because such soldiers had killed thousands of Muslims abroad. The reasoning is specious. A court has jailed a British soldier for just such a death, and Woolwich is not a war...