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Cross your boss at Al Qaeda? Get a nasty memo.

Pirates of the Mediterranean, a fascinating op-ed piece from the New York Times recounting the attack by a loosely connected group of people on the Roman port at Ostia, followed by a massive deployment of forces, a near-draining of Roman coffers, a loss of personal freedoms and accusations of traitorship for those who didn’t toe the party line. Sounds familiar?

Terrorist organisation logos

If these guys had been muslims there would be special editions running all over the world’s media right now.

Statistics show that you are far more likely to die in a car accident or by a heart-attack. But we have no idea what the probability of a terrorist attack is, and that frightens us

Colin Camerer on our fear of terrorism