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An NHS mental health trust in England has withdrawn from a controversial counter-terrorism programme that enabled police to access medical information of patients– including young children – deemed to be vulnerable to extremism, Middle East...
A new documentary on the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair has been released on Al-Jazeera Arabic channel. There are no subtitles, however some of the interviews are in English. You can watch the full documentary on Al-Jazeera...
Britons’ right to protest is under threat like never before. If you value it, speak up now, writes Imran Khan in The Guardian. Writing on the appointment of Lord MacDonald, the former director of public prosecutions, by Shabana...
An AI-generated British schoolgirl Amelia, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos, reports The Guardian. In certain corners of the internet, on niche news feeds and...
Shabana Mahmood revealed that she wanted a state surveillance system where “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times” while invoking an enduringly controversial proposal by the 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham. In comments...
Teachers will be given training to spot and tackle misogyny in schools, the BBC reports, while high-risk pupils could be sent on behavioural courses as part of the government’s strategy to halve violence against women and girls in the...
Babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016, Hyphen has revealed. Infants who had not yet turned two were referred to Prevent 86 times between...
12 November 2025 – Prevent Watch welcomes the publication of the Bingham report and approaches its findings with cautious optimism. The Commission’s conclusions confirm what Prevent Watch has long evidenced through over a decade of...
Amnesty UK are encouraging parents and students to write to their MPs to “get the Prevent duty out of our classrooms” – and you can do so now by using their online form, because: • As a parent, you deserve to know your...
“When states transfer more power to private entities, the public loses. The government becomes a body designed to service the needs and interests of profit-seeking private entities rather than its citizens. Worse, citizens lose much of...
The Southport Inquiry embodies our warning that the Prevent duty has created conditions in which teachers, social workers and other frontline professionals are increasingly unable to act on their own expertise, and are required to defer to...