Ben Macintyre spins the astonishing true story of the KGB major who defected to the British during the violent early days of post-revolution Iran

I started writing this prior to the AI panic explosion over the last couple of days, but in light of recent information, it seemed more impo

Abstract: ‘Exit comms’ are communication campaigns designed to promote individual or group-level disengagement from violent extremist (VE) organizations or movements during active conflicts. Despite r...

The Home Secretary’s response to Lord Anderson’s ‘Lessons for Prevent’ report.

Is 'salad bar' extremism really new? Experts unpack the FBI's viral analogy, the explosion of competing labels, and what mixed ideologies actually mean.

And six ways in which we could tackle broader social media harms.

As a landmark tool for tracking the group’s activity hits another sobering milestone, U.S. officials cannot let regional crises completely overshadow important shifts in jihadist threats around the wo...

Andrew Davies’s defining TV series was a surreal parable starring Peter Davison, Barbara Flynn and David Troughton

In this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain.

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

A recent published report suffers from fatal analytic flaws and risks feeding false narratives about political violence and polarization.

For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.

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