As David Cameron this week launched a fresh campaign to rid our shores of extremism, concerns have been expressed about the potentially uncontrollable impact of such new measures. In announcing a sweeping ‘Counter-extremism strategy’, which includes pumping an additional £5 million into ‘moderate muslim groups and charities’, the prime minister attracted widespread criticism about a... Read More

By Joseph Kelly David Cameron may have got a thunderous standing ovation for his big Tory party conference speech in Manchester this morning, but listening to his oration left me feeling hugely uncomfortable. Now in my 50s, I grew up in the heady decades of sexual revolutions, Marxist activism, Thatcherism, nuclear annihilation, national strikes, power... Read More