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The almost never-ending Shamima Begum case has once-again made big news in the UK. Debates are raging between liberals, who want her to return, and those of a more conservative disposition, who say leave her in Syria to rot.  For those who are not aware of the story, Begum was …

“I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake.” Shamima Begum thinks she was a normal teenager. Wearing a baseball cap, skinny jeans and white t-shirt, looking – and sounding – every inch the trendy young Londoner, she tells interviewer Andrew Drury that she was simply “really naive” when …

Britain has once again proved it’s in denial and doesn’t want to face its own issues. In February 2015, Shamima Begum left London for Syria aged 15 to join Islamic State, along with two school friends. Ten days later, she married a jihadist and went on to have three children, …

Begum and two friends travelled to Syria via Turkey in 2015 to join the Islamic State, where she later married an IS fighter.  “The Supreme Court unanimously allows all of the Home Secretary’s appeals and dismisses Ms Begum’s cross-appeal,” Lord Reed of Britain’s Supreme Court said, announcing the decision on …