Britain needs a new approach to extremist violence
One year on from the Plymouth shooting, policy is still struggling to keep up with new types of terrorist threat.
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Terrorism is the systematic use of violence to create a climate of fear in a population with the aim of disturbing the status quo, overthrowing authorities or attacking a particular group for ideological reasons. Terror has also been used by governments against their people to suppress dissent, for example in Nazi Germany.
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Prevent is Islamophobic by design, not accident
As a teacher, I see how Muslimness itself is deemed a risk factor for radicalisation.
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Texas synagogue attack shows corrosive power of anti-Semitism
Yes, there really are people who think the Jews control everything. That belief degrades all of society.
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UK raises terror threat level to “severe”. What does this mean?
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America, 20 years after 9/11
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A new docuseries captures 9/11 minute by minute
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