UNDERSTANDING PREVENT REFERRALS: YOUNG PEOPLE, ISLAMISM AND EDUCATION

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged Adam Deem, Counter Terrorism, extremism, government, Home Office, ideology, Islamism, islamophobia, prevent, profiling, Quilliam Foundation, racism, radicalisation, reports, statistics, students, terrorism, training, xenophobia.

By Richard McNeil-Willson

At the start of November 2017, the UK Home Office released its official figures for referrals to the Prevent Counter-terror Programme for the 2015-2016 period. It showed that, of the 7,631 of all referrals, ‘Islamist extremism’ represented the greatest threat, young people were the most vulnerable to radicalisation, and authorities only needed to respond to a minority of cases. But there are problems with this reading, which are shown by exploring the nature of referrals and the political context in which they sit.Continue Reading

AS ISLAMIC STATE RECEDES, THE WAR ON TERROR CONTINUES TO GROW.

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged caliphate, Counter Terrorism, daesh, execution, human rights, ideology, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, radicalisation, Rory Stewart, Syria.

By Richard McNeil-Willson

As Islamic State strongholds tumble, the language of counter-terrorism in Europe and beyond expands exponentially.

Binaries lie at the heart of understanding terrorism and modern state security: ‘you’re either with us or against us’; a citizen of here or ‘a citizen of nowhere’; a supporter of the democratic, liberal state or ‘an enemy of freedom’. By targeting ‘us’ – both the individual and the state concurrently – terrorists force citizens into a position in which we all need to look beyond legal convention, to dispense with some rights to preserve others. So has trod the orthodox argument, refracted outwards from media, government and research. Continue Reading

WHO ARE THE DUP?

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abortion, absolute boy, BLUKIP, Brexit, climate change, conservatism, conservatives, Counter Terrorism, creationism, cyber security, Democratic Unionist Party, detention bill, DUP, gay marriage, general election, Good Friday, Gordon Brown, hardline, homophobia, Ian Paisley, IRA, Irish Republican, jeremy corbyn, Labour, militia, minority government, national living wage, NI, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly, Orange Order, Parliament, peace process, pension triple lock, Peter Robinson, protestant, PUP, racism, religion, Rihanna, same-sex marriage, Sinn Féin, terrorism, theresa may, Troubles, UK government, Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Resistance, Ulster Volunteer Force, universal benefits, US Conservative, wheat fields.

by Zoe Harding

Content warning: article mentions terrorism, (anti) abortion, homophobia, racism

So, the election was fun, right? Even if you didn’t vote Labour (and fair enough if you didn’t), watching Theresa May fall from an unassailable lead in the polls all the way to a humiliatingly hung Parliament, in a blizzard of vague soundbites, invasive and inadequate policies and flailing attempts to smear the opposition, was still rather viscerally satisfying in its own way. Early Friday morning saw a weird sense of relief from many who expected a Tory landslide.

Unfortunately, early Friday morning turned to mid-Friday morning, and then suddenly dove back into the bad old days, with the announcement that a desperate May government had decided to form a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in order to form a government.Continue Reading

SURVEILLANCE & TOLERANCE: HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT IS CONTROLLING YOUR MIND

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged academics, Andrzej Duda, Brazil, Chris Grayling, Closed Materials Procedures, CMP, Counter Terrorism, data gathering, david cameron, Dilma Rousseff, ECHR, Edward Snowden, European Court of Human Rights, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Fresno, Hong Kong, Hong Kong bookshop, human rights, Justice and Security Act, NSA, oil fields, Petrobras, police, Raif Badawi, right to protest, Samar Badawi, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State, surveillance, terrorism, Terrorism Act, turkey, twitter, UNICEF, US Patriot Act, US police, Waleed Abu al-Khair, WikiLeaks, writer.

by Gunnar Eigener

“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens,
as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.” – David Cameron

Ever since Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks and The Guardian’s revelations about state surveillance and data gathering were largely greeted with indifference by the public, governments across the globe have continued to find ways to watch and obtain information about their citizens. Yet increasingly it is the actions taken by these governments in response to healthy criticism and protest and the sinister erosion of human rights that should strike a worrying chord in each and every person.Continue Reading

Counter Terrorism

UNDERSTANDING PREVENT REFERRALS: YOUNG PEOPLE, ISLAMISM AND EDUCATION

AS ISLAMIC STATE RECEDES, THE WAR ON TERROR CONTINUES TO GROW.

WHO ARE THE DUP?

SURVEILLANCE & TOLERANCE: HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT IS CONTROLLING YOUR MIND

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