Is it time for Britain to open concentration camps and use the army to tackle the threat which the country faces?

In times of great peril in the past, this country has not hesitated to use concentration camps and troops to tackle the enemy within

History, it is often said, is written by the victors. Nowhere is the truth of this aphorism more neatly demonstrated than in the probable reaction of many readers to the title of this article. For most people in Europe and America, the very expression ‘concentration camp’ is inextricably linked to the horrors of the Third Reich; mention of concentration camps invariably conjuring up images of Auschwitz and Dachau. From this perspective, the notion of concentration camps in Britain is an alarming one. It was not always so. In fact, it is only since the end of the Second World War, and the allied victory over Nazi Germany, that concentration camps and Germany have become associated in this way.