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Piers Akerman is an opinion columnist with The Sunday Telegraph. He has extensive media experience, including in the US and UK, and has edited a number of major Australian newspapers.

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 26:  Flowers and balloons are left in Saint Ann's Square in tribute to those killed in an explosion at the Manchester Arena earlier this week on May 26, 2017 in Manchester, England. The explosion at the Manchester Arena on the evening of May 22 happened as concert goers were leaving the venue after Ariana Grande had performed. Greater Manchester Police are treating the explosion as a terrorist attack and have confirmed 22 fatalities with many more injured.  (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Weak West must get tougher with jihadis

THE Manchester murders and the release of the coronial report into the Martin Place siege ­reveals the weakness of the Western response to the bloody perpetrators of ­terrorism, Piers Akerman writes.

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Staff dinkus. Piers Ackerman.

So where is Malcolm’s star-spangled manner

THE Australian American ­Association handed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a real trump card with the icebreaking meeting with The Donald at its inspirational commemoration of the Battle of the Coral Sea aboard the USS Intrepid in New York.

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A boy walks by a cross leaning against a wall a day before the reenactment of the Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, in the village of San Mateo, some 50 km north of Mexico City, Mexico, Thursday April 13, 2017. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Christianity attacked at holiest celebrations

SOME Muslim leaders ­entreat their followers not to eat chocolate and to ignore the Easter celebrations. Others set out to murder Christians as they celebrate the holiest of their days, Piers Akerman writes.

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