Terror is not as big a threat to British values as the hysterical response to it | Simon Jenkins

Philip Hammond attacks Isis ‘apologists’, but scaremongering politicians, a greedy security industry and reckless media all carry heavy responsibility too

In a speech today, foreign secretary Philip Hammond attacks those who apologise for Islamic State (Isis) recruiting. “A huge burden of responsibility rests with those who act as their apologists,” he says; they are to terrorism what Lenin called “useful idiots”.Hammond’s anger is understandable, given the ease with which the media has public...