Making "Prevent" worse
The official review of the UK’s Prevent “counter-terrorism” strategy led by William Shawcross has finally come out, after much delay. Amnesty International UK’s racial justice director Ilyas Nagdee has responded that the review “has no legitimacy. William Shawcross’s history of bigoted comments on Muslims and Islam should have precluded his involvement in this review in the first place.” That is right. As Solidarity flagged up in May last year, Shawcross is a radical right-winger with a startling history of anti-Muslim commentary. The idea that the UK government appointed a former director of...