The research study reported here was not funded by a specific research grant. Maaha Elahi and Dr Julian Hargreaves are grateful for support from the Woolf Institute. Dr Julian Hargreaves had an ...

There are very real, and growing, concerns about domestic extremism these days. In a poll from last year, 88 percent of Americans reported that they were very or somewhat concerned about politically ...

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Government plans to broaden its definition of extremism to try to tackle growing Islamist and far-right activity in the UK has sparked alarm among religious groups. The current definition – "vocal or ...

Communities Secretary Michael Gove has unveiled a new definition of extremism - as "the promotion or advancement of... violence, hatred or intolerance" He tells the Commons that groups like British ...

Michael Gove has named a string of organisations that could be barred from government funding and meetings under a controversial new definition of extremism. But he insisted the reform will not impact ...

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Michael Gove has been accused of a “chilling” attempt to crack down on free speech after he unveiled a controversial new definition of extremism. The communities secretary also named a string of ...

Just what, exactly, is "extremism"? For more than a century, the word has been debated, defended and weaponized in America. It has been applied to everyone from the slavery abolitionists of the 1850s ...

In a fundamental attack on democratic rights, the British government announced its new definition of “extremism” Thursday. It marks a new stage in the criminalisation of protest and free speech. The ...