UK Counterterrorism Program Says Interest in Great Literature is a Sign of “Far-Right Extremism.”

by Chris Black

If your taste is based, you might be a right-wing extremist.

The taxpayer-funded document included references to The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton.

Works by Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson, Kipling, and Edmund Burke were also included.

You must be having a laugh! Yes Minister and The Thick of It were among the satire programmes flagged by beleaguered counter-terror Prevent scheme for 'encouraging far-right sympathies't.co/q2ovH4qAcP

— Roger Kulmala 🇫🇮🦁 (@RogerKulmala) February 19, 2023

^List of authors to buy before they use AI to butcher them.