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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 9:01 PM
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US | As families across the country worried about how they’d put food on the table, leaders portrayed the harm as beyond their control.

Not true.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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UK | “Dehumanising” rhetoric from politicians and social media activists has seen Islamophobia become “normalised” and is fuelling a rise in anti-muslim hate across the UK.

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‘Our place is being questioned’: British Muslims warn Islamophobia has become 'normalised' across the UK — LBC
“Dehumanising” rhetoric from politicians and social media activists has seen Islamophobia become “normalised” and is fuelling a rise in anti-muslim hate across the UK, LBC has been told.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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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 10:46 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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PREVENT | Referrals to counter-terrorism surged after the Southport murders — many with no clear ideology.
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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 2:04 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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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 11:16 PM
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DEMOCRACY | Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s democratic victory.

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‘New York City Has Fallen’: MAGA Responds to Zohran Mamdani’s Victory With a Racist Freak-Out — WIRED UK
Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani’s victory.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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PSYCHOLOGY | Most of us dread the thought of getting older, but new research suggests an unexpected benefit of ageing: our mental functioning peaks between the ages of 55 and 60.

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What age do humans reach their mental peak? It’s not as old as you think — Euronews
Feel too old to take up a new hobby? Think again. A new study suggests humans reach their cognitive prime between the ages of 55 and 60.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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BREAKING | Police investigating a mass knife attack on a train say they are reviewing three further incidents, including the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy.

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Police reviewing three further incidents - including stabbing of boy, 14 - after train knife attack — Sky News
Anthony Williams, 32, has appeared in court charged with 11 counts of attempted murder over the mass stabbing on Saturday, and another attack hours earlier at a London station.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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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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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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 3:28 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
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SCOTLAND | A neo-Nazi drug dealer who posted vile anti-semitic messages and videos glorifying Adolf Hitler was found with a gun in his garden shed in Dundee.

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Neo-Nazi drug dealer who posted videos glorifying Hitler found with gun in garden shed — Daily Record
Joseph Beaver was found to have links to far right training group Active Club Scotland
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October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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USA | Donald Trump is taking the United States steaming towards a full authoritarian state, and now like-minded leaders are rising across the world, as far-right political movements spread like a virus.

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The Trump Virus is spreading around the globe. Especially in the UK. — LGBTQ Nation
Donald Trump is part of a growing, global anti-liberal movement. And they're gaining steam. Tuesday, October 28, 2025 Dallas, TX - August 6, 2022: Nigel Farage speaks during CPAC Texas 2022 conference...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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ANALYSIS | Through interviews with former jihadists, recruiters, and peers, the study also sheds light on recruitment strategies and risks posed when fighters return home from conflict zones.

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ANALYSIS | Through interviews with former jihadists, recruiters, and peers, the study also sheds light on recruitment strategies and risks posed when fighters return home from conflict zones. | SECRPO...
ANALYSIS | Through interviews with former jihadists, recruiters, and peers, the study also sheds light on recruitment strategies and risks posed when fighters return home from conflict zones.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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RESEARCH | What are the implications of US President Donald Trump's designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation, and what are the possible consequences for counter-terrorism measures in Europe?

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RESEARCH | What are the implications of US President Donald Trump's designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation, and what are the possible consequences for counter-terrorism measure...
RESEARCH | What are the implications of US President Donald Trump's designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation, and what are the possible consequences for counter-terrorism measures in...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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PSYCHOLOGY | Far-right actors have preyed on widespread concerns over immigration and integration, merging anti-immigration rhetoric with a hodgepodge of extremist ideas and ideology in ways that have propelled divisive, nationalist and often xenophobic discourse.

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On memes and mugs: Everyday extremism in the (digital) mainstream | BPS
Tina Askanius and Jullietta Stoencheva, Media and Communications scholars at Malmö University, with examples from Sweden which some readers may find offensive.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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EARTH | The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

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Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points — WIRED UK
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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FOLLOW US ON LINKEDIN | ANALYSIS | National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV), ICCT conducted a feasibility study regarding the development of a reliable framework for detecting and moderating extremist and terrorist content online.

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ICCT Live Briefing 02.12.2025 | SECRPOL
ANALYSIS | National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV), ICCT conducted a feasibility study regarding the development of a reliable framework for detecting and moderating extremist an...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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ANALYSIS | New report out bringing together findings from 4 country case studies on how journalists navigate reporting on terrorism under conflict & authoritarian rule in MENA.
It unpacks how both states & terrorist groups shape the story.

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RESEARCH | This report brings together insights from four in-depth country case studies, each exploring the realities and risks journalists face when reporting on terrorism in conflict-affected or… | ...
RESEARCH | This report brings together insights from four in-depth country case studies, each exploring the realities and risks journalists face when reporting on terrorism in conflict-affected or aut...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM