Peter Taylor, OBE

Peter Taylor

In January 2015 we heard Peter Taylor talk about past and present terrorist threats. Having covered the troubles in Northern Ireland for the BBC, he is now a freelance journalist, documentary-maker and author and has turned his attention to the acute problem of Islamist extremism.  Peter described how the John Major government began the slow process of ‘talking to terrorists’ – the IRA – and what hopes there may or may not be for talking to present-day terrorists.