Neil Basu is right to acknowledge that addressing terrorism should involve tackling inequality and racism. But it will also require a radical rethink of Britain's place in the world
Central to UK counter-terrorism has been the notion that terrorism is caused by extremist ideology. This seems to be understood by the Conservative government as a deviation from a rather arbitrary set of “British values”, but on close inspection the concept of “extremism” is more or less meaningless. Indeed, it was recently revealed that efforts to develop legislation based on the concept were abandoned because it is “broad and ill-defined”.
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