Yet More Enemies Within

Advisers at the hotbed of ministerial moderation that is the British Home Office have queried the thoroughly traditionalist conclusions of a report into an outdated Government strategy, viz. that the best course of action is to continue and, where possible, compound the said Government's favoured errors. As demonstrated by by one objector's quibble that the recommendations did not "reflect what's going on," the wayward advisers' focus appears irredeemably concentrated upon the merely real and factual. By way of healthy British contrast, the recommendations were extruded by one William Shawcross, a right-wing journalist and Battenberg-licker in good standing, commissioned by the Ministry for Wog Control to endorse its Muslim-baiting strategy as embodied in the New Labour Prevent programme. Although the number of referrals for Islamist extremism has fallen over the past decade and a half, the number for far-right extremism has risen; which, to an administration as moderate and sensible as the National Johnson's, raises the sinister possibility that policies such as breaking international law, criminalising peaceful protest and deporting refugees to Rwanda might one day be viewed as extremist in themselves.