RT @CommissionCE: Read @Robin_Simcox's reflections on StaCU's first year and our new Annual Report. From establishing robust complaints pro….

This end of year review provides an insight into all the work @CommissionCE has been doing to provide independent oversight on Prevent.

RT @CommissionCE: Our End of Year Report is now published, featuring @RobinSimcox's foreword on his tenure as Commissioner. It outlines @Co….

Read more here about recent @CommissionCE engagement with the French government on counter extremism policy.

RT @CommissionCE: Today, we publish exciting research by Dr Donald Holbrook, examining the ideological drivers of terrorism. Analysis of 1….

Some additional thoughts from me on Dr Holbrook's research and its implications in @thetimes.

From an analysis of 100 convicted terrorists, Holbrook finds that ideology is “indispensable in understanding terrorists. why they fight, what they hope to achieve and what is permissible in their struggle.” . The report can be read in full here:

Today @CommissionCE publishes a major new piece of research by Dr Donald Holbrook. 'Sacred Violence: The Enduring Role of Ideology in Terrorism and Radicalisation' is a landmark study demonstrating how ideology is fundamental to dictating terrorists' behaviour.

RT @CommissionCE: Last week, @RobinSimcox visited Southport to meet @seftoncouncil senior leaders, counter extremism professionals and comm….

RT @CommissionCE: Last week, @RobinSimcox held a meeting with Minister for Early Education @StephenMorganMP to discuss how @CommissionCE an….

RT @CommissionCE: A year on from the worst anti-Jewish pogrom since the Holocaust, we extend our support to the UK's Jewish communities and….

RT @YvetteCooperMP: Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist organisation. Promoting it in Britain is a criminal offence. Extremism has no pla….

RT @CommissionCE: This week, @RobinSimcox met @DanJarvisMBE to discuss the current extremism threat picture, the new government’s response,….

RT @CommissionCE: Last night, @RobinSimcox was on @BBCNewsnight to discuss the recent riots and ongoing challenge posed by the Extreme Righ….

Where the threshold for terrorism is reached, the Government, acting in concert with the police and the security services, should consider proscription.

Any attempt to defeat extremism in this country – wherever it emerges and whatever its guiding ideology – has to involve proactively and decisively disrupting the activities of groups that create a permissive environment for violent acts.

Groups that operate below the terrorism threshold still have the capacity to do serious harm to our country. They seek to transform disparate concerns and local movements into something altogether more menacing. No community should live in fear of abusive and violent protests.

In particular, the presence of activists from far-right groups like Patriotic Alternative and Britain First; as well as a proscribed terrorist organisation, National Action.

There is clearly a spontaneous and opportunistic character to the disgraceful rioting and looting we have seen across the UK in recent days. However, we must also not ignore emerging evidence of a more organised element.

Proactively seeking to exclude those who come to the UK in order to push extremist narratives is a sensible move by the government. Further context provided in my piece for @Telegraph.