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Dr Rob Wray
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Action Head | Counter Extremism | SECRPOL

PhD PsyD CTE TAdv MRes MA(Glas) BPsS BSc(Psych)

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Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · Sep 6
In fairly short order, the far right have gone from fringe lunatics to a supermarket ideology: different aisles for different resentments, all under one roof of hate. Cheap conspiracies. Hyper-masculinity. Cultural grievance. Violence. And its rubbing off on our kids www.linkedin.com/posts/drrobw...
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“One group with 50k+ followers even pledges to “hunt down Muslims,” draped in Christian imagery”.

Moses wept.
secrpol.bsky.social SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social · 11h
UK | Many on the hard & far right now fuse anti-Islam rhetoric with a crusading Christian identity — turning culture wars into a “clash of civilisations.”

UKIP vows to “declare war on radical Islam” & “put Christianity back at the heart of government.”

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A right-wing movement that has marched against immigration is now marching behind the cross — Sky News
A new type of Christianity - more militant, more political - is on the rise. But some in the Church of England claim this is a
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November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“Violent innocence” captures how systems cause harm while insisting it’s out of their hands.

The last shutdown proved it: officials claimed helplessness, but legal experts & past actions showed SNAP funding could’ve stayed open.

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Psychologists Have A Term For How Republicans Justify Their Harmful Policies And It's Disturbingly Accurate — BuzzFeed | Dr Rob Wray
“Violent innocence” describes how individuals or institutions can inflict deep harm while maintaining a façade of moral neutrality — or even ignorance — about the consequences of their actions. As fa...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This framework emphasises the multicausal, socially embedded, and psychological interactions that shape radicalisation.

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Beyond Antecedents: The Application of Reciprocal Determinism to Understanding Radicalisation Process(es) | Perspectives on Terrorism
This article proposes a novel theoretical framework for (re)conceptualising the process(es) of radicalisation. Whilst the concept of radicalisation, as a social and psychological process, has been ubi...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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British Muslims — especially women and young people — are feeling increasingly unsafe as hostility and racism grow across the UK, warns Akeela Ahmed, CEO of the British Muslim Trust (BMT).
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Data released this week shows that a record number of referrals were made to Prevent in the year to March 2025. The majority of referrals were made for individuals who had “no identified ideology.”
secrpol.bsky.social SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social · 2d
INSIDE “CHANNEL PANEL” | For the first time in its history, journalists have been granted unprecedented access to see the inner workings of Prevent, a multi-agency government programme that aims to stop people from perpetrating terrorist acts.

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Unprecedented access to UK’s counter-terrorism Prevent programme – and decision making process
For the first time in its history, journalists have been granted unprecedented access to see the inner workings of Prevent, a government programme that ultimately aims to stop people from perpetrating...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Katie Lam wants to retroactively revoke permanent residency for legal UK residents—potentially deporting 4–7% of the population. Even by far-right standards, this is extreme.

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Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
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November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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BREAKING | Irish authorities have charged two men with possession of explosives in relation to an alleged planned terrorist attack by a far-right extremist group.

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Two men charged in Ireland in relation to alleged planned far-right terror attack — The Guardian
Karolis Peckauskas of Drogheda and Garrett Pollock of Annalong in Northern Ireland charged with possession of explosives
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November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Extreme right-wing concerns accounted for 21 per cent of PREVENT referrals in the year to March 2025, surpassing Islamist extremism at 10 per cent, while the largest proportion (56 per cent) fell under the 'no ideology' category.

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Huge rise in far-right cases sent to anti-terror programme Prevent — The Independent
A record 8,778 individuals were referred to the government's anti-extremism scheme, Prevent, in the year to March 2025, marking a 27 per cent increase.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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We’ve been conducting similar research with the same concerning results.
mrjamesob.bsky.social James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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ONLINE | A Sky News investigation sought to track the balance of political conversation on X, and assess whether the social media platform's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content to users in the UK.

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How Sky News investigated X's algorithm for political bias
In recent months, X has become a focus of political conversation in the UK, with social media experts and politicians saying Elon Musk's platform is sowing political division across the country.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Result. More to do.
secrpol.bsky.social SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social · 5d
EUROPE | Dutch liberals pull off shock win — but it’s not the end of Europe’s populist wave.

Jetten beat Wilders with optimism, unity and spirit — yet the far right as a bloc still grew.

Fragmentation, chaos and timing played a part. Populism isn’t beaten — More to do.

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Lessons for liberals: what can Dutch progressives’ victory over populism teach the world? — The Guardian
Rob Jetten beat far-right firebrand Geert Wilders in the recent election, but that doesn’t mean it’s the start of Europe’s progressive surge
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November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani was elected on Tuesday as the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating the former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and making history as the city’s first Muslim mayor.

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Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York on winning night for Democrats — The Guardian
Democratic socialist, 34, becomes city’s first Muslim mayor as Democrats triumph in several other key races
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November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Pleased to successfully vote against Nigel Farage’s Bill to pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The ECHR reflects British values of fairness and decency - not something to be discarded for political headlines.
libdems.org.uk Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 12d
Liberal Democrat MPs just defeated Nigel Farage’s Bill in Parliament to tear up people’s rights and withdraw from the ECHR.

Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into Trump's America. We won't let him.
Graphic showing a laughing Nigel Farage - above are the words Lib Dems defeat Farage's plan to undermine our Human Rights
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The Pentagon unveiled a new press corps last month, consisting largely of far-right media publications, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, and LindellTV — MyPillow founder Mike Lindell — along with independent journalists and online influencers.

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Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon — The Washington Post
The far-right activist has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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More than two million households living under Reform-run councils face tax rises of £127 million next year, despite promises to bring down bills.

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Reform councils to raise tax for 2m households despite pledging cuts — The Times and The Sunday Times
More than two million households living under Reform-run councils face tax rises of £127 million next year, despite promises to bring down bills. Eight of the 13 local authorities controlled by Nigel ...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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A young man reveals how, as a lonely teen, he was sucked into 'red pill' thinking - and the turning point that changed his views on feminism and immigration.

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At 14, I was seduced by the far right - this is what parents need to know — The i Paper
A young man reveals how, as a lonely teen, he was sucked into 'red pill' thinking - and the turning point that changed his views on feminism and immigration
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November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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A Reform UK councillor has defected to the Conservatives because he had become “uncomfortable” with the party’s policies.

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Reform UK Councillor Defects To Tories After Feeling 'Uncomfortable' Over Anti-Migration Policies — HuffPost UK
Nigel Farage's party was accused of creating a
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November 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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secrpol.bsky.social
LATEST | A 32-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the Huntingdon train knife attack is now being treated as the only suspect, British Transport Police (BTP) said. The man, from Peterborough, boarded the train at Peterborough station.
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Reposted by Dr Rob Wray
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UPDATE | Supt John Loveless said the two suspects were both British nationals and remain in police custody. Both suspects were born in the UK and have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
November 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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LATEST | Nine people are fighting for their lives in hospital after a mass stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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BREAKING | Two people have been arrested after a number of people were stabbed on a train to a Cambridgeshire town, police have said.

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Two arrested after multiple people stabbed on train, police say
British Transport Police said they were responding to an incident on a train to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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secrpol.bsky.social
ONLINE | Researchers located a propaganda video on X advertising UK-based white supremacist Active Club chapters that received over 300,000 views. The Telegram user who made the video encouraged others to give the X video a signal boost.

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Extremist Content Online: Pro-Al-Qaeda and Pro-ISIS Content Located on Instagram, Video Promoting Active Club England Receives Over 300,000 Views on X
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports on the methods used by extremists and terrorist groups on the Internet to spread propaganda and incite violence. Last week, CEP located five pro-al-Qaeda an...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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NEWS | The playbook: Extremist rhetoric is given an outsized platform through manipulative and toxic social media platforms, racist violence spreads. We see their public rhetoric move to the right, giving credence to extreme beliefs of fringe FRE.

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Any party that wants to win the next election must avoid the far-right trap
Catherine Connolly garnered 914,000 first preference votes, the highest number ever recorded for any presidential candidate in Irish history, by explicitly rejecting far-right narratives throughout th...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Not true.

What is true is YOU voting for Reform brings with it stuff you don’t really want.

Use your voting powers for good.
secrpol.bsky.social SECRPOL @secrpol.bsky.social · 10d
UK | Not the first time Musk has sought to stir division in Britain and peddle baseless claims. At the height of tensions during the 2024 riots he announced to his 200 million X followers: “Civil war is inevitable.”

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‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ — The Observer
The platform has become a swamp of disinformation. Politicians should lead the way out of it
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October 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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USA | At a time when masked agents of the state act with impunity, emboldened neo-Nazi groups march in the streets, and one institution after another legitimizes authoritarian consolidation, there’s a need for unflinching reporting to hold these forces to account.

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Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements — Semafor
Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM