France is facing up to Islamism, so why can’t Britain?

France is facing up to Islamism , so why ca n’t Britain ? Jihadist attacks in France have sparked a flurry of major films and books.

In Britain , the caliphate episode and its deadly reverberations have largely been memory-holed.

As many as 2,000 people are thought to have abandoned France for ISIS or other jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria .

Director Cédric Jimenez has been criticised in both French media and la presse Anglo-Saxonne for seeming to side with the authorities.

The Guardian called Novembre exemplary’, but only so far as it is a PR exercise for French law enforcement’.