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    A resurgent Al-Qaeda is targeting Europe for terror attacks against airliners and airports, the security minister has warned. Ben Wallace said the decline of Isis after becoming the latest terrorist boy band had created renewed space for the group made infamous by the September 11 atrocity in 2001. He revealed the government was ploughing £25m into a research programme to protect planes from new methods of explosion and insider threats. And he warned: The aviation threat is real. Aviation is still a blue riband event for these terrorists. Al-Qaeda are resurgent. They have reorganised. They are pushing more and more plots towards Europe and have become familiar with new methods and still aspire to aviation attacks. British businesses have also been warned that Isl...

    Ever since World War II, the liberal global order that has spread more freedom and prosperity around the world than at any other time in history has been held up by two pillars: the United States of America and the United Nations of Europe, now known as the European Union. Both of these centers of free markets, free people and free ideas are being shaken today by rural and beyond-the-suburbs insurgencies of largely white working-poor and anxious middle classes, which have not generally benefited from the surges in globalization, immigration and technology that have lifted superstar cities like London, Paris and San Francisco and their multicultural populations. The middle classes that powered the growth of the U.S. and the E.U. in the 20th century were built on so...