Prevention Creep

British extremists are very selfishly becoming less Islamic and more like the political mainstream. Initially set up by the Blairites as a convenient vehicle for official Islamophobia, the Prevent programme now risks subversion through referrals of people barely distinguishable from Team Starmer's policy-makers in the Farage Falange. More than a third of beneficiaries in the past year also had at least one mental health or neurodiversity condition, which presumably is not quite what Wideboy Wesley Streeting meant when he implied that disabled people are just in it for the free BMWs and luxury accommodation. It is to be hoped that the programme can somehow be restored to its original sensible and moderate remit, perhaps by encouraging more referrals of those displaying insufficient enthusiasm for virtuous genocide or profitable ecocide.