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Counter-terrorism policy

July 2024

  • Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards participate in a military parade in Tehran.

    Labour unlikely to rush into proscribing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

    Exclusive: Lammy said to be looking at creating new category of state-sponsored terrorism to allow restrictions to be imposed

May 2024

  • Penny Mordaunt, leader of the Commons

    Lost laws: which legislation will slip through the net before the UK election?

    While some bills will be dealt with swiftly in the ‘wash-up’ period in parliament, others could fall by the wayside

April 2024

  • Protesters outside the British Embassy in Paris

    Met police to pay ‘five-figure sum’ to French publisher arrested under anti-terror laws

  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-RABBI<br>Israeli soldiers deploy near a Palestinian house during a raid to find Mohamed Fakih, a Hamas militant accused of murdering an Israeli rabbi earlier this month, in the village of Surif, north of the West Bank city of Hebron on July 27, 2016. Mohamed Fakih was killed and several other people were arrested in the hours-long raid. The July 1 attack saw a car targeted by gunfire south of Hebron, leading to a crash that killed the rabbi and wounded three family members. Hebron is the scene of frequent tensions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Several hundred Israeli settlers live in the heart of the city under heavy military guard among around 200,000 Palestinians. / AFP / HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images)

    Does Counter-Terrorism Work? by Richard English review – a thoughtful and authoritative analysis

March 2024

  • Supporters of Just Stop Oil march across Parliament Square in December 2023  to protest the growing number of activists that are being held on remand in prison following being arrested during peaceful protest.

    Ironies abound in Michael Gove’s definition of extremism

  • Jacob Graham in his bedroom.

    More young people being radicalised online, says UK counter-terror officer

  • The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

    The Observer view: Michael Gove’s definition of extremism will shut down vital debate

  • Michael Gove standing at the dispatch box in the House of Commons.

    Today in Focus
    What do the Tories consider extreme?

  • Gove faces legal action threats after suggesting Muslim groups are extremist

  • The politics sketch
    Michael Gove on extremism: the imperturbable in pursuit of the indefinable

    Zoe Williams
  • How has UK extremism definition changed and why is it attracting criticism?

  • ‘We’re a political punchbag’: Muslim Council chief baffled by MoD move to cut ties

  • There is a far bigger threat to Britain than fringe extremists: Tory radicalisation

    Rafael Behr
  • Prevent counter-extremism programme budget to be slashed in London

  • Revealed: legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’

  • They were killed in the London Bridge terror attack, seconds apart. So why did their families get wildly different payouts?

February 2024

  • Shamima Begum

    A civilised country would not have made Shamima Begum stateless

  • Shamima Begum

    Shamima Begum loses appeal against removal of British citizenship

  • Lawyers sought to overturn ruling last year that revocation of her citizenship was lawful

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    Shamima Begum loses appeal against removal of British citizenship – video

  • William Shawcross told the BBC that Prevent was failing to identify terrorist sympathisers and there was an increased risk in the UK due to the war in Gaza.

    Public left ‘at risk’ over UK counter-terrorism strategy, says Prevent review author

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