This is edition 2024/166 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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1. Overzealousness
David Harvey
- 📚 This article explores UK counter-terrorism efforts and controversies surrounding cultural works.
- 🎭 Government scrutiny includes works by Tolkien, Lewis, Orwell, and political classics like Leviathan.
- 🏛️ UK's counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, aims to coordinate prevention, pursuit, protection, and preparation.
- 🛡️ PREVENT, a part of CONTEST, focuses on ideological roots of terrorism and early intervention.
- 📰 RICU, a strategic communications unit, uses social psychology to influence attitudes toward extremism.
- 🔍 RICU's approach scrutinizes diverse media, including literature and cultural productions.
- 📜 The Shawcross Review criticized RICU's broad inclusion of non-violent right-wing material.
- 📺 Media scrutiny revealed government lists linking innocent media to far-right ideology.
- 🗣️ Public and political criticism questions RICU's methods and its impact on free speech and intellectual freedom.
- 🌍 Global reactions highlight concerns over state censorship and ideological control.
