General Article Extremism in the UK: new definitions threaten human and civil rights

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Extremism in the UK: new definitions threaten human and civil rights

Chris Allen, University of Leicester

The UK government’s approach to dealing with extremism has been enormously controversial since its strategy designed to counter it was released in 2015.

After years of invoking the subjective idea that extremists oppose “fundamental British values”, the government’s current definition of extremism been decried as unfit for purpose, with some far right-wing groups even using it to their ad...

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