The Daily Populous Tuesday August 20th, 2024 night edition
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The review will look at the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in the UK, as well as wider ideological trends, including extreme misogyny or beliefs which fit into broader categories, such as violence.

It will also look at the causes and conduct of the radicalisation of young people.

Ms Cooper said the strategy will "map and monitor extremist trends" to work out how to disrupt and divert people away from them.

It will also "identify any gaps in existing policy which need to be addressed to crack down on those pushing harmful and hateful beliefs and violence", she said.

Ms Cooper said that action against extremism has been "badly hollowed out" in recent years.

The work will inform a new counter-extremism strategy, which was promised in Labour's manifesto and which the Home Office says will "respond to growing and changing patterns" of extremism across the UK.

The review is expected to be completed by October. It is one of a number of policy reviews Labour has announced since coming to power in July, including the Strategic Defence Review, spending review and a review of the National Curriculum.

Critics might argue that some reviews are a proxy for actual action, but Labour has pointed out that there has been no new Counter Extremism Strategy since 2015, and that an assessment of new and emerging threats is overdue.

This is also not the first time the government has considered misogyny as a form of extremism.

For some years there has been concern around "Incel culture", an online movement of mainly young men who describe themselves as "involuntarily celibate" and blame women and "alpha males" for their problems.

A mass shooting in Plymouth in 2021 by 22-year-old Jake Davison, who killed five people before fatally shooting himself, was linked to Incel ideology.

At the time no further policy action was taken, but incidents like that one, and also the rise of social media influencers such as Andrew Tate - a self-proclaimed misogynist - may have pushed the new government to think again.

Idiot_Reddit_Now on August 19th, 2024 at 16:42 UTC »

Tolerance Paradox, we need more of this. Let's stop tolerating hate and archaic inequality bullshit.

thebeardofbeards on August 19th, 2024 at 15:49 UTC »

Extreme Misogyny not just misogyny. I think being a mentally unwell Incel, murdering 5 people then yourself with a shotgun would qualify. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_shooting

This is a counter terrorism review which hasn't been done since 2015, Before the mass shooting in 2021 above and the rise of people like Andrew Tate and that special little group of cunts who follow him and his bullshit.

Absolutely needs to be looked at. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/30/global-incel-culture-terrorism-misogyny-violent-action-forums

Any effective counter terrorism organisation would take a look at this type of extremism along with everything else.

It's just common sense.

autotldr on August 19th, 2024 at 15:24 UTC »

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)

> Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

> The review will look at the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in the UK, as well as wider ideological trends, including extreme misogyny or beliefs which fit into broader categories, such as violence.

> Critics might argue that some reviews are a proxy for actual action, but Labour has pointed out that there has been no new Counter Extremism Strategy since 2015, and that an assessment of new and emerging threats is overdue.

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