This article argues that the long-standing political term ‘useful idiot’ needs updating to ‘useful infidel’ to reflect cultural changes in the UK and the Western world. Traditionally, it has been used polemically to describe people, mainly in liberal, progressive democracies, who are unwitting pawns manipulated by totalitarians, tyrants, or other oppressive ideologies with values foreign to their own. Through their support, they give moral legitimacy to ideological systems wh

UK Universities are on the Islamic Payroll In January this year, the UAE made a shock announcement. It would no longer fund its young students to study abroad at universities in the United Kingdom. The decision was reported by multiple news outlets, each confirming the shocking reason for the pronouncement. An Emirati expert in strategic and political affairs, Amjad Taha, said, “The UAE will not send its students to become hostages of Islamist jihadist ideology disguised as c

Since the New Year, Iranians have been filling the streets in sustained protests against the current Iranian regime, which has ruled since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. These protests are not merely indicative of periodic unrest. They reflect a people pushed to the limit by economic strain and cultural and religious repression. In the face of extraordinary danger, with thousands giving their lives, the people are rejecting the authority of the Islamic Republic itself. As pa