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So said Conservative prime minister David Cameron, in a speech made just after he was returned to power at the 2015 UK General Election. Having spent the past five years in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, during which Tory reforms on counterterrorism and surveillance had been stalled by inter-party politicking, the gloves, it seemed, were coming off.
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. This government will conclusively turn the page on this failed approach.1
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When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British State’s flirtation with radical Islamism, by Martin Bright, Policy Exchange, 2006, policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/when%20progressives%20treat%20with%20 reactionaries%20-%20jul%2006.pdf.
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Slater, T. (2016). Terrorism and Free Speech: An Unholy Alliance of State and Students. In: Slater, T. (eds) Unsafe Space. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-58786-2_10
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