

Former Capital and Virgin Radio star Penk famed for his on-air prank calls. He said: "We should learn the lessons of the whole period from 9/11 to today and try to forge a new synthesis of foreign policy which recognises the need for an active policy of engagement, but in a way sophisticated by our experience not incapacitated by it. DJ Steve Penk has launched Radio Dead featuring music by the likes of David Bowie, Elvis Presley and Amy Winehouse. The former Labour leader outlined a five-point plan, including defeating IS and destroying its so-called caliphate forging a coalition of nations willing to take on jihadist extremists wherever groups attempted to gain a foothold confronting the ideology supporting academics and theologians who were tackling extremism and seeking a wider engagement in Middle East diplomacy. He said: "A continued failure to recognise the scale of the challenge and to construct the means necessary to meet it, will result in terrorist attacks potentially worse than those in Paris, producing a backlash which then stigmatises the majority of decent, law abiding Muslims and puts the very alliance so necessary at risk, creating a further cycle of chaos and violence." Aged just 16 he started his radio career at Piccadilly Radio in 1978 (subsequently rebranded Key 103), where his breakfast show delivered. Penk has worked for various national and local UK radio stations.

He warned that a continued failure to recognise the scale of the challenge would lead to terrorist attacks "worse that those in Paris".ĭelivering a lecture at the Library of Congress in Washington, Mr Blair said defeating ISIS was "only a necessary beginning" because "force alone will not prevail" and "the Islamist ideology has also to be confronted". Steve Penk is a British radio and television presenter.
