Curate’s Egg is Policy Exchange’s analysis of the Government’s new social cohesion strategy.

It proposes the creation of a “special representative on anti-Muslim hostility,” which will almost certainly hand an official megaphone to an activist with an expansive view of what anti-Muslim hostility is. 

It creates potential free speech risks, pledging to crack down on “divisive content” online. But “division,” or disagreement, is necessary for democratic debate. If everyone agreed, or was forced to agree, it would not be a debate.

However, it also foregrounds Islamism – responsible for 94 per cent of terrorist deaths since 1999 – as the most serious extremist threat. It proposes new powers to close extremist charities and suspend trustees, to “strengthen monitoring” of non-violent extremism in universities and to exclude hate preachers from the UK.

There will also be a new drive to make people learn English, which the strategy describes as a “fundamental basis for participating in society and an expectation of those who wish to call the UK home.”

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