PREVENTING TERROR OR FREE SPEECH?
by Kenan Malik
This is the opening to my essay on the flaws of Britain’s Prevent strategy, published in the Observer on 15 June 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. If you believe that immigration has destroyed Western civilisation, I might think you’ve become too drunk on Robert Jenrick and Allison Pearson, Douglas Murray and Melanie Phillips. The British state, though, may well mark you down as being on the path to terrorism. According to an online training course for Prevent, […]
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