“If you start knocking off the big fish, you may end up getting people even more fanatical”
Targeted assassinations may weaken leadership in the short term, but often fail to deliver lasting change and can even harden resistance, says The Times’s associate editor and columnist Ben Macintyre.
Ben Macintyre was speaking to Jane Mulkerrins on Times Radio. Listen live every Saturday from 1pm-4pm.
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