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NEW extremism laws will criminalise Muslim “non-violent extremists” suspected of having “vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values,” the Prime Minister announced yesterday.
David Cameron detailed a controversial five-year plan as part of the “Prevent” strategy of the Counter-Terrorism Bill to stamp out “poisonous Islamist extremist ideology.”
Organisations thought to use “hate speech,” such as Cage — which campaigns for Guantanamo Bay detainees jailed without charge or trial — would be banned and premises holding the talks, such as universities, could be shut down, a measure which has already been rejected by the National Union of Students and University and College Union.
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
