Patriotism is terrorism, apparently!
Read this, share. Feel free to ask your MP: “WTF!?” 
In 1971, Don McLean sang about ‘the day the music died’. Soon, in the UK, they’ll may well be singing about the day democracy and freedom of speech died!
In a post today, professor Matt Goodwin was forced to ask, Am I a terrorist? in an article looking at how the British state views opposition to mass immigration as an indicator of “terrorist ideology”.
In a related Facebook post, he says,
Being concerned about mass immigration is “terrorism”, apparently! Looks like we are all going to prison folks!
This is the Censorship Industrial Complex in overdrive —a concerted attempt by a failing state to stigmatise those of us who question or openly challenge the dreary reality of mass immigration and broken borders.
From expanding hate crimes, ‘non-crime incidents’, definitions like ‘Islamophobia’ and concepts like ‘far right’, a ruling class can now sense it’s losing power and is desperately trying to delegitimise entirely legitimate views and shut down opposition.
Generally then, if you disagree with the government, on basically anything, if you disssent, you are a threat to the narrative, to the elite, globalist driven ideology. You must be silenced!
This was first flagged by the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young, and shared on The Telegraph’s homepage and print edition!
The Telegraph (paywall) article (June 2025) claims that – according to the government – concern over mass migration is terrorist ideology, says Prevent. Online guidance says ‘cultural nationalism’ could be a reason for referring someone for deradicalisation
The Sunday Times also covered it, again behind a paywall: Prevent deems concerns over migration ‘terrorist ideology’. The government’s anti-radicalisation programme lists ‘cultural nationalism’ as a belief that could lead to an investigation.
The classification appears in Prevent’s official “refresher awareness” course hosted on gov.uk, which states that “cultural nationalism” represents one of the most common “sub-categories of extreme Right-wing terrorist ideologies”, alongside white supremacism and white/ethno-nationalism.
Sir William Shawcross’s report two years ago delivered damning criticism of Prevent, revealing that it had wrongly funnelled money to extremist organisations and repeatedly failed to identify people who went on to carry out terrorist attacks.
(Just so were are clear, and this was flagged in the report, Prevent is funded to the tune of over £50m a year and some of that money was paid to very questionable sources, possibly including proscribed terrorist organisations! (i.e. The government could well be funding terrorism with our money!))
The Spectator – not hidden beind a paywall – stuck two fingers up at the establish and argued, “Worrying about migration doesn’t make you an extremist.”
[In Feb, 2025] “a leaked internal Home Office review on extremism suggested that claims of ‘two-tier policing’ were a ‘right-wing extremist narrative’.
“In this we see an obvious influence of hyper-liberalism and one of its key tenets: the idea that words are dangerous and must be policed – in our case today, literally. … Hyper-liberals believe words can cause damage, especially when employed by those not sufficiently educated to use them.”
(e.g. If you don’t agree with them, you are stupid. Echoes of the Brexit referendum much?)
“… members of the British intelligentsia [have] a knee-jerk embarrassment and hatred of their own country”
Prevent’s lopsided approach to terrorism, one that overplays the threat posed by the far right and underplays the one posed by Islamists. It was behind the ‘double standard’ that the damning Shawcross Review on Prevent spoke of in 2023
The problem…
The narrative…
The thing about this ideology is not just what’s seen, but what’s hidden. Does ‘it’ tick the right boxes? Or does ‘it’ raise flags?
I’ve written about this before, it’s something that’s been accelerating since the 1960s, and it’s subtle. It’s about ‘the story’, the ‘headline’. Do you run the story, or bury it? How do you word it, how do you phrase it? Does the time you put it out matter? Can we use this to bury something worse?
As Captain Jack Sparrow so wonderfully phased it:
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem!
Take this news story for example. Arrests of illegal migrant workers increase by 51% in year since Labour elected.
The problem is the underground work market. Clearly Labour are getting things done. They have arrested over 50% more illegal workers. Go Labour! Go the Left. Wohoo!?
Here’s the thing, and why I’m really starting to like Ground News – they collate and balance news stories. In this case, only 13% of leftist newspapers reported this. To be precise, to date, only one left-leaning paper reported it, and that was The Metro!
Why is that, do you think?
The problem is illegal immigrants working. Reporting this acknowledges that this is a problem. So it got buried as it contradicts the ‘immigration good’ narrative.
8 clear signs that you are terrorist threat…
Or may be a far-right, white-supremist, extremist and or have sympathies for them*
You have ever read Shakespeare, or Milton, or Tennyson, or Kipling.
You have ever read or watched Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
You have read Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, or Milton’s Paradise Lost.
You have watched The Dam Busters, The Great Escape, or The Bridge On The River Kwai
You have watched or read Zulu, or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
You have ever watched the comedy Yes Minister
You have ever watched BBC’s Great British Railway Journeys
You have watched BBC’s The Thick of It
(The list does go on, and on… Having voted for Brexit is another sign, apparently!)
*This is according a report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) to the governments, which is tax-payer funded to the tune of £49 million a year, and who sees these as ‘key texts’ for white supremisists.
[tvpworld .com/…/uk-govt-scheme-flags-shakespeare…] (Story removed, redirects to a Polish site).
It began:
UK gov’t scheme flags Shakespeare, LOTR as ‘key texts’ for ‘white supremacists’
Prevent is a British government’s safeguarding programme that supports people who are at risk of being radicalised
Daily Mail: February, 2023:
You must be having a laugh! Yes Minister and The Thick of it were among satire programmes flagged by beleaguered counter-terrorism Prevent scheme for ‘encouraging far-right sympathies‘
Scottish Sun (2023): TOTAL MADNESS: Great British Railway Journeys among shows flagged by counter terror scheme ‘for encouraging far-right sympathies’
This debacle was raised by author and columnist Douglas Murray, who found himself shoved on the list for his best-seller, “The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam.”
(Let’s not forget that recently one retired police special constable was arrested for having such Brexity books!!!)
I dread to think how much of a threat they consider his latest book, in which Douglas Murray asks,
“if the history of humankind is a history of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?”
“…the Prevent programme was advised by left-wing activist groups like Hope not Hate. Such groups have long believed that the definition of far-right should encompass, for instance, many people who supported Brexit”
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“opinions that were in many cases (such as on Brexit and immigration) shared by a majority of the British people.”
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“according to RICU there were warning signs if people absorbed information or opinions from ‘pro-Brexit and centre-right commentators’.”
Spectator (Au): Can you really be radicalised by Great British Railway Journeys?
Spectator (UK): (same story, but behind a free-trial/paywall)
Gov.uk: Prevent Strategy Review (2011) (pdf)
Gov/uk: Independent Review of Prevent, 2023 (by William Shawcross CVO)
e.g.:
3.48, p24
“I saw one RICU analysis product from 2020 on Right-Wing terrorist and extremist activity online which referenced books by mainstream British conservative commentators as “key cultural nationalist ideological texts”.
The same document listed “key texts” for white nationalists as including historic works of the Western philosophic and literary canon.”
3.87, p31
“In one of the most egregious cases, the leader of a Prevent-funded CSO was found to have publicly made statements in 2021 that were sympathetic to the Taliban,37 and referred to militant Islamist groups – whose military wings were proscribed in the UK – as “so-called ‘terrorists’ of the legitimate resistance groups”. ”
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3.89 CSO podcast with individual with a “record of promoting antisemitic narratives.”
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This is government policy, Tory AND Labour!
You get the idea. There’s more of the same, were the people in the shadows behind this appear appear to be far left, anti-white, anti-right, antisemitic, anti-UK… but we paid for it, so we know they at least love our money, hmm.
At this point, given the narrative they are pushing, it would not surprise me in the least if some of the funds were funneled to the very terrorists groups they are being paid to protect us from! (Which, apparently, turned out to be the case!)
Fast forward to 2025:
Mass migration concern is labelled a “terrorist ideology” in a Government Prevent course, which says it could lead to a deradicalisation referral.
Piers Pottinger: “If you don’t agree with their left-wing pathetic views, they’ll lock you up.”
Talk TV (Facebook): Freedom of Speech under siege. Concern about migration flagged as extremism
This woke narrative is vomited out by academia!
This is the “elite” establishment mantra, being forced down the throats of the “ignorant” working class and indoctrinating generations of impressionable undergraduates, many of whom will go on the become teachers, civil servants and in media and spread the poison down to the next generation.
Telegraph, 2025: Orwell’s 1984 now comes with ‘trigger warning’. Author has been convicted of ‘thought crimes’ he warned about in novel, critic complains
Even the Americans are laughing at us, with the New York Post pointing out that one UK UNIVERSITY (Bristol) has bizarrely issued more than 200 trigger warnings on classic works by William Shakespeare — even flagging harmless things such as storms, extreme weather and “popping of balloons.”
I wish I’d kept up a list, because, honestly, I have shared loads of similarly moronic beliefs held by woke academics.
For instance, last year Nottingham university warned that Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales given trigger warning over “expressions of Christian faith”
In 2022, a Times investigation uncovered 1,081 ‘trigger warnings’ applied to texts across undergraduate courses in the UK.
It also revealed that 10 universities, including Russell Group members Warwick, Exeter and Glasgow, had actually removed or made optional books that students might find ‘harmful’.
Last year, a former senior university administrator claimed that the introduction of trigger warnings on university texts is teaching students to become fragile and childlike (Scottish Daily Express, Times).
In an essay for the Scottish Union for Education, Linda Murdoch, the former Director of Careers at the University of Glasgow, argued that undergraduates are being infantilised by suggestions that they need to be protected from ideas that might upset them.
“Students today have been taught to fear their thoughts and feelings,”
Free speech Union
I did psychology with the OU and the arguments I had…
At one point I was almost literally told, ‘You are right, but “critical thinking is not required at this level” [honours degree]. Just write a paper agreeing with them – or they’ll fail you.”
i.e. Do not question the narrative! Obey!
(My paper argued it was BS and gave my evidence, still got 68% on it. Sod ’em.)
It’s not really THAT bad, is it?
It kind of is!
In 2018 professors at Leeds Trinity University were instructed not to use certain words OR CAPITAL LETTERS — in case they frighten sensitive students!!!
Sorry, did my use of a triple exclamation frighten you, little snowflake. Aww, diddums! FFS!
Apparently even full stops (periods) are passive-aggressive!
American universities are doing this wet-nursing bullshit too!
For the record
I am not a “far-right terrorist threat” – and neither are the other roughly 60 million people in the country who hold similar views.
Thought I’d just put that out there!
As I bluntly told my own MP in a ‘pull your finger out’ email, the government – and by extension you – are rapidly becoming an unelectable joke. A nightmare that we – the people – are sick of, and your party hasn’t even been in a year!
“Historian Andrew Roberts told the Mail: ‘This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education. It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent – powerful critiques of terrorism’.”
Basically, Prevent – and anyone who supports it – is not fit for purpose.
Almost everyone around my age has a near identical memory from the 1977 Silver Jubilee celebrations.
They – the establishment – want this patriotism erased from our memory and our history. Do not let them!
THIS IS SPARTA BRITAIN!
Related links
Prevent duty training: Learn how to support people susceptible to radicalisation
Guidance: Prevent duty training: Access training courses on the Prevent duty, the threat from terrorism and extremism in the UK and how to support people susceptible to radicalisation.
Home Office (2023): Prevent duty guidance factsheet
(With a huge LOL, warning that “This blog post was published under the 2015-2024 Conservative Administration”)
Home Office (2024) Statutory guidance. Prevent duty guidance: for England and Wales (accessible)
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Also from pixabay (merged): British flag and (stop) terrorist attacks
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