In 2014, ISIS began to establish its “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq. This meant torture, forced displacement, sexual slavery and abuse, as well as forced conversions, looting, the destruction of churches and many other horrors besides. There was no place for religious pluralism: establishing the purely Islamic state meant a genocidal campaign against religious minorities.

Responsibility to protect is enshrined in Article 18 of the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights and was born in the embers of the Holocaust

Sixty years of on-off engagement has pushed the region to the brink of war

Unlike today's posturing MPs, The Iron Lady was a conviction politician