News about William Shawcross

Trying to manage other people's minds and opinions is a tricky business, and free societies have generally steered away from it for the past few centuries. England's greatest monarch, Elizabeth I, declared she would not 'make windows into men's souls', during the era of ferocious religious disagreement between Catholics and Protestants. It remains one of the wisest things ever said by any political leader. If we wish to diverge from this historic common sense, we need good reasons to do so. Many will argue that the terrorist threat, hideously displayed in the London bombings of July 7, 2005, provide that reason. Such merciless carnage cried out for strong measures to ensure that it was not repeated - even measures that weakened our long traditions of freedom of speech and thought.

It is well organized. It seems that it has a war chest brimming with cash. And some of the candidates' political slogans are disturbing. The Muslim Vote (TMV) is a political party that claims to represent Britain's four million-strong Muslim community. Moreover, it is expected to support scores of candidates in the forthcoming election, posing a significant threat to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who is already embroiled in a controversy over anti-Semitic remarks made by members of his party. Starmer asked his MPs not to endorse a parliamentary motion the month before the SNP, which called for a 'immediate' ceasefire in Gaza, which was the catalyst for the campaign group's launch in December. The debacle in the Commons last week over a similar vote, which was later postponed by the SNP, may only have strengthened the group's mission. Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle broke with democratic tradition to call a Labour referendum on a ceasefire rather than the SNP's more radical motion, saving an embarrassing rebellion among Starmer's ranks from politicians who would have sided with their Scottish opposition.

In one of the British political class's periodic bouts of self-righteousness, Thomas Babington Macauley, a 19th-century scholar, there is no spectacle more absurd than the British political class. Macauley was writing about the British tendency to slip prey to'sudden gusts of kitschy sentimentality followed by vehement protestation.' It was both ridiculous and'sinister.' Despite the fact that he directed his remarks at the wider audience, if he was present in the House of Commons today, where he may have described the ludicrous conduct in which he served as a Whig MP. The politicians have taken complete leave of their senses, not for the first time. They have managed to prevent the human tragedy from unfolding in Israel and Gaza from affecting them.

According to The Mirror, Katie Amess has filed a court request to get revenge for her father, 69, who was stabbed to death while speaking with constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on October 15 2021. Ali Harbi Ali, 28, was found guilty of murdering the MP for Southend West at the Old Bailey in April 2022 and was sentenced to a whole life in prison. Ali had been planning his violent act of terrorism for years, despite being referred to Prevent, the Home Office's initiative designed to discourage people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

According to the charity, there is a substantial chance of discrimination against certain groups, including Muslims and children, and that the program is lacking transparency, with people often unaware of whether they have been referred or challenged it. Suella Braverman (right) of the UK Home Office has defended the scheme. Here are links to Prevent by age group.

Historians were shocked to learn that sorting of the late Queen's personal papers had been given to a mere footman rather than a senior courtier or a Royal family representative. The royals have a long tradition of setting fire to their past, leaving behind only what they feel would portray their character in a positive light.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Philip may be enjoying a celebrity chuckle over King Charles' decision to allow a non-historian, his trusted servant Paul Whybrew, to sift through the late King's private papers before they are moved to Windsor's Royal Archives. Philip promised that no one would interfere with his legacy by forensically sorting his own papers. He had boxes of documents delivered to Wood Farm Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in his final two years. He is not the first royal to have the story of his life. Princess Margaret destroyed 30 black bags of the Queen Mother's correspondence, including all of her letters from Princess Diana.

Ed McVey, 22, and Meg Bellamy, 20, will portray the Prince and Princess of Wales in the early days of their relationship when studying at St Andrews in the final series of the famous Netflix drama. On the night of March 27, 2002, the pair recreated the unforgettable night 20-year-old Kate confidently strutted in front of her peers barely dressed in front of her peers barely dressed. Prince William, who paid £200 for a table just inches away from the runway, reportedly sat on his future wife open-mouthed.

The show's sixth season hasn't even premiered, but the three actors making their screen debuts as young Kate Middleton, Princes William, and Harry are being paraded around by Netflix at exclusive events. The new series will chronicle events from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Netflix was chastised for filming scenes reenacting Diana's death in a Paris tunnel in 1997. However, producers will try to defuse the scandal by focusing their PR efforts on actresses playing Kate, William, and Harry. Meg Bellamy (left), 20, who plays Kate and Ed McVey (right), 22, and William's niece, Kate, has been attending high-profile parties together in recent weeks. According to reports, this was an apparent effort to recreate the once-strong relationship between their royal characters.

ROBERT HARDMAN: We may not be able to explain magic, but we do know when we see it. It's the reason that nothing, not the naysayers, not the shrill demands of social media, not even the rain, could destroy a King's raw power before God, his people, and the world. Surely, the most moving part of the service was when the Prince of Wales stepped forward to pay their respects to as the 'liege man of life and limb.' Whereah, he gave his father a light kiss on the left cheek, just as Prince Philip did to the Queen 70 years ago. The monarch's visage lit up as the monarch's face emerged from the rubric's personal intrusion.

Ms Braverman said in an excerpt from her speech, which was obtained by The Times, Suella Braverman told a counter-extremism conference last night that the entire concept of political correctness should be discarded.' Certain Islamist organisations have been able to operate under our radar. Our national security can't be without political correctness. I'd actually prefer to discourage it completely from being banned from using it.'

A counter-terrorism initiative in the United Kingdom flagged some of the country's most popular sitcoms and best works of literature as potential signs of far-Right extremism. The flagship Prevent program, which was the subject of a scathing investigation, singled out comedian Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even William Shakespeare's Complete Works Of It as possible red flags of radicalism. The fiction books, according to the university, were "key texts" for 'white nationalists/supremacists.'

According to the report, terror suspects attended Al-Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in West London, including members of the ISIS execution squad, among others.' The Duchess of Sussex used the center, which has received at least £100,000 in Prevent funds, to visit the centre regularly in 2018 (pictured). Many times she went to a community kitchen because its employees were at the forefront of helping the victims of the Grenfell fire. The Duchess also advocated for a cookbook that raised funds for the center's Hubb Community Kitchen.

Former Tory Cabinet Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg (pictured, right) was linked to radicals as a result of the country's 'woke' counter-terrorism program, according to The Mail on Sunday. The revelation came days after a damning inquiry revealed how the government's Prevent programme was failing to address Islamist ideology while simultaneously dismissing mainstream views as extremist. Last week, charity Commission boss William Shawcross (pictured, left) revealed how Prevent officials knew that a leading Conservative politician was associated with 'far-Right sympathetic audiences.' Mr Shawcross refused to reveal the individual, but Prevent sources revealed to the MoS that it was Mr Rees-Mogg, the former Business Secretary and Speaker of the House of Commons.

HENRY HITCHENS: In our midst, a British Stasi is quietly growing in our midst. Governmental armies have begun to see it as their right and responsibility to spy on conservative thought and speech, arguing that it is in some way connected to 'Right-wing militantism.' How long before the snooping turns into harassment? We have seen, in the last few weeks, Big Brother Watch's enthralling investigation into British Government surveillance of dissenters over the state Covid policy. Almost every one is now aware that the organization, which once known as "the police," is now a radical Left-wing body, flyers of the rainbow flag, and is ready to pounce on traditional street preachers or on social media posters that refuse to comply with the sexual and transgender revolution. But there is another pillar of this, which has bothered me for a long time, and it is now troubling William Shawcross, a respected public servant. Mr Shawcross looked at Prevent, which is a suspected counter-terrorism operation. And he discovered something weird about it. Pictured: William Shawcross, who was appointed Independent Reviewer of Prevent in January 2021

Lord Carlile, a former Lib Dem MP, was hired by Labour to carry out an independent report on Prevent, the £49 million-a-year counter-terrorism initiative that was introduced by Labour in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. It was designed to identify people who might be affected by radicalization and then intervene in their lives before it was too late. In other words, we want to discourage potential terrorists from becoming real terrorists. Carlile identified a number of deficiencies in the service eight years after Prevent's inception, including a lack of focus, inadequate data processing, and inadequate performance monitoring.

The royal family is looking for an archives curator based at Windsor Castle (bottom left), who has been hired specifically to archive all of Queen Elizabeth II's and the Duke of Edinburgh's documents. The initiative will give the late monarch's day-to-day life, interests, and correspondence, much of which she kept strictly private during her 70-year reign. The successful candidate will be given the rewarding task of reading through Her Majesty's papers for the next two years, many of which will never have been seen by anyone other than the Queen herself.

After a study into the government's flagship anti-terrorist program found that it was not doing enough to tackle 'non-violent Islamist militant terrorism, not political correctness,' Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the reform of Prevent "must solely [focus] on safety, not political correctness." Officials had a'double standard when dealing with the Extreme Right-Wing and Islamism', according to the long-awaited report on the Prevent programme by former Charity Commission Chair William Shawcross. Suella Braverman told MPs that she will'swiftly implement all of the authors' recommendations' and report back on her progress with reorganizing Prevent in a year. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, (left) who assassinated veteran MP Sir David Amess in 2021 was one of the terrorists linked to Prevent. Usman Khan, 28, (right) who murdered two graduates at a prisoner rehabilitation event in London Bridge, had come into contact with Prevent officers who had 'no specific training' in handling terrorists

According to the long-awaited report, mental health services for less significant risks, such as misogynistic 'incels,' meant less attention on the dangers faced by religious militants. William Shawcross (pictured), the former chairman of the Charity Commission, is also worried about the use of Home Office funds. According to the Mail, it would detail how Prevent's money has been inadvertently funnelled to militant organisations as a result of a lack of proper scrutiny. According to a person, 'Well-intentioned public sector workers used Prevent when they had no other way to get mental health assistance to people.' According to the study, Prevent is concerned about mental stability and incels, which could lead to the detriment of the major Islamist threat.' We need to refocus on Prevent's main goal, which is to discourage people from becoming terrorists.'

According to the study, attacking radical ideology should take precedence over finding reasons to excuse terrorists of their crimes. When it is presented in Parliament this week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman is expected to accept its recommendations. The reforms are expected to go into operation later this year. The delayed report, which will be based on William Shawcross' Prevent strategy of combating terrorism's ideological origins, is also expected to change Ministers' Prevent strategy priority of combating terrorism's ideological sources, while staff's guidance will be rewritten.

William Shawcross said that it would be inappropriate for him to start the probe because he has worked with BBC Chairman Richard Sharp (left) in the past. Mr Shawcross revealed a week earlier that he would investigate whether the rules were properly followed. Mr Sharp helped then-prime minister Boris Johnson (right) secure a loan facility worth up to £800,000 right away before being appointed to the position.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Has Harry's betrayal of family secrets in Spare thrown a spanner in the works of the official biography of the late Queen? William Shawcross's life of the Queen Mother was given complete access to her personal papers in Windsor's Royal Archives for the last such assignment. With a shortlist of potential biographers assembled by Buckingham Palace, it will be impossible for any Royal Boswell not to deal with the Sussex story and quote from personal correspondence and diaries, which may bring on internal conflicts across the pond. Shawcross's opus took six years to finish, so no official history of the Queen will appear in a hurry. But has Harry's so-called truth further postponed the story of the monumental life of his grandmother? Former cabinet secretary Lord Andrew Turnbull debunks King Charles' pledge to donate the proceeds from a £1 billion-a-year Crown Estate wind farm deal "for the greater public interest." It's not his money to give, he says, implying that King George III sold the Crown Estate surplus to the Exchequer in exchange for a set amount. These figures haven't been the King's to be distributed for more than 250 years,' the peer claims. 'It's part of a complex scheme to give the public and Parliament the impression that the sovereign grant was paid for out of the monarchy's own funds rather than taxation.' There goes your invitation to the Coronation, Andy! Natascha McElhone, pictured, is more proud of the book she wrote about the loss of her 43-year-old husband Martin in 2008 than she is of her acting. 'It's there for my kids if they want to know exactly what it was like for me,' the mother-of-three tells Radio Times, referring to After You: Letters Of Love, And Loss,

Counter-terrorism agents should be targeted by Muslim militants who accuse blasphemy, according to a recent Government study. The Mail on Sunday will reveal that attacking so-called 'blasphemy violence' in the government's flagship counter-terrorism program. It is considered blasphemy to portray the Prophet Muhammad or other members of his immediate family in Islam, and among hardliners, the penalty for such a deelection is death.

Panicking Home Office civil servants, who contributed almost £200,000 to a group led by an imam who once voiced support for the Taliban, are now'scheming' to conceal it by leaving his name out of a damning official report. The Left-leaning Whitehall penpushers, nicknamed "the Blob," are postponing the unveiling of the Prevent counter-extremism book, fearing that anyone named in it could sue. But the Mail on Sunday understands that this 'legal trickery' is being used as a 'legal shield' by bureaucrats fearing they will lose their jobs due to the revelations. If it was revealed that public funds were distributed to people and groups that were unsuitable to receive, it would be a misappropriation of public funds,' a well-placed source told the MoS. It would have to be traced back to whichever officials made those decisions.'