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The great ebola scare Michael Brooks Blind panic is gripping the west. But our fear is misdirected Matthew Barzun We’ve never had it so good, argues the US ambassador Helen Lewis How to defeat the trolls: destroy their mythology Free thinking since 1913 Isis can be beaten 17-23 October 2014/£3.95 Its western recruits are wavering. It is fighting on too many fronts. Is the jihadi group falling apart? By John Simpson in Baghdad

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The great ebola scare Michael Brooks Blind panic is gripping the west. But our fear is misdirected

Matthew Barzun We’ve never had it so good, argues the US ambassador

Helen Lewis How to defeat the trolls: destroy their mythology

Free thinking since 1913

Isis can be beaten

17-23 October 2014/£3.95

Its western recruits are wavering. It is fighting on too many fronts. Is the jihadi group falling apart?

By John Simpson in Baghdad

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