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1 Mar, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Since 2018, Europol, the FBI & MI5 have all said that FAR RIGHT TERROR PLOTS ARE MULTIPLYING FASTER THAN ISLAMIST ONES, yet a #PREVENT review is to be led by grotesque hard-right crank William Shawcross, who describes gay rights & climate change as "PC".

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Shawcross adores #Murdoch, & has written of a “vast fifth column” of Muslims in Europe who “wish to destroy us”.

PREVENT stats show that in 2020, 30% of people deemed to be at risk of hateful #radicalisation came from Islamic backgrounds, 43% were potential far-right extremists.
17 human rights & community groups say they will boycott the #PREVENT review in protest at the appointment of Shawcross, because "the UK government has no interest in conducting an objective & impartial review of the strategy".

amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Shawcross is an Old Etonian & friend of Michael Gove, & a regular at hard-right thinktanks Policy Exchange & the Henry Jackson Society.

The @Conservatives largely ignore #Islamophobia, & demonizing Muslims & human rights activists is now just part of their populist nationalism.
It's blindingly obvious that the UK Govt is playing with fire: they're using the exact same rhetoric & tactics that Bannon started in the USA, namely a ruthless & deliberate strategy of polarizing society by relentlessly demonizing minorities & the Left with a faux "culture war".

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The @Conservatives know that their cynical & inflammatory culture war is not just divisive, but extremely dangerous.

The head of Historic England says employees have received many threats.

The unhinged Tories & their media backers are going full Trump.

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Since 2018, Europol, the FBI & MI5 have all said that FAR RIGHT TERROR PLOTS ARE MULTIPLYING FASTER THAN ISLAMIST ONES, yet a #PREVENT review is to be led by grotesque hard-right crank William Shawcross, who describes gay rights & climate change as "PC". theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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A strange & probably unhealthy "graduate of Churchill College, Cambridge & former chair of the Cambridge University Conservative Association", who clearly has *no idea* what modern universities are actually like, misleadingly claims "fringe opinions are dominating academic life".
In 2018 Harry Clynch described as "refreshing & real" Jacob Rees-Mogg's "honesty & openness with the electorate".

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Short THREAD on rising #racism & far-right extremism, based on very concerning updates from @IRR_News.

Please follow & support The Institute of Race Relations & the @RunnymedeTrust - organisations struggling for racial justice in very worrying times.

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The Govt's #Orwellian paper on 'Higher education: free speech & academic freedom' is, imho, one of the most #sinister moves toward a #totalitarian state that Britain has ever experienced, based on an almost total absence of either good sense or evidence.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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